I Will Be The Crowned King Chapter 156

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Amidst the deafening roar, the ancient and sturdy barren stone castle wall was crumbling, and even the earth began to vibrate.

Accompanied by the roar of the artillery, the cavalry holding the golden irises high in the sky and the smoke of gunpowder advanced violently, hammering the outer positions of the Hantu army again and again.

The open and boundless wilderness is filled with the sound of terrifying and oppressive iron hoofs, like the dull thunder of the sky, echoing in the ears of every terrified soldier in the land, making them curl up in the trenches in panic, holding their rifles and rustling. trembling.

This barren stone fort offensive and defensive battle has just begun.

After some planning and preparation, Claude Francois began to arrange the only two legions he had at hand, a 40,000-strong army in the area of ​​the deserted stone fort. The three-sided "encirclement net" of the Imperial Expeditionary Force is only one-half of its own strength, but the elite and powerful.

In order to ensure "safety", Claude François rarely followed Carl Bain's suggestion. The 40,000-Hands Legion relied on the terrain to focus on the traffic line between the Barren Stone Castle and the Iron Bell Castle; the number of constructions was huge, and A group of fortresses connected by traffic trenches and bunkers, all within range of each other.

And in view of the advantage of the imperial expeditionary force's strong mobility, the western line of communication leading to the fortress of the top of the tower was handed over to the empire, only the flanks and eastern sides of the barren stone fort were defended, the width of the defense line was sacrificed in exchange for depth, and the imperial cavalry and the crown were contained. Artillery of the world.

All in all, this is a conservative, very "heart-hearted" defense mode - you can't win if you win, but it can also make the Imperial Expeditionary Force smash their heads in front of the "thousand-layer anti-armor" barren stone fort. .

The only problem is that Claude still underestimated the opponent's maneuvering speed, or seriously overestimated the operational efficiency of the Han soil army.

The 20,000-strong Imperial Expeditionary Force did not push forward along the line of communication as he had imagined; instead, the troops were divided into multiple paths, allowing the troops to pass through the rugged Ayden Hills in pieces, and then break them into pieces. From the south - the left flank of the Barren Stone Castle launched a fierce attack.

At the same time, the Hantu army's "Desolate Stone Fort Defense Line" was only two-thirds completed, and a large number of peripheral defense facilities were not in place at all. The various units did not know their garrison positions, and the headquarters was completely in chaos.

It's the same old problem - Hantu does have an army of 100,000, but they have never really assembled this "100,000 army" even once, and they have no experience in operating such a large army.

Even Archduke Thun and Aiden, who have the most "rich" combat experience, have more than 30,000 troops under their command, but most of them are "security forces", and most of the time they command only their direct subordinates. Yes, a guard of about five thousand men—about the size of a reinforced infantry division in Clovis.

One-third of the troops, without any defense facilities, without the slightest preparation, and without even time to dig trenches, faced the Imperial Expeditionary Force who suddenly appeared from the horizon on the flat and boundless wilderness of the Barren Stone Fort, facing the torrent like a torrent. Cuirassiers rolling from the hillside, and four-, six-, and eight-pound bullets flying all over the sky.

As a result, nature is devastating.

In front of the menacing Imperial Expeditionary Force, the terrified Han Tu Legion had no intention of fighting at all. After very weak resistance, the battle lines they formed began to fall one after another.

Claude François, who noticed that the situation was wrong, also issued an order to retreat immediately, shrinking the defeated troops into the fortress-for the poorly organized Hantu army, only by holding together can it play a role. higher efficiency and combat effectiveness.

The only obstacle preventing the Imperial Expedition from capturing this only supply point in western Aiden was the walls of the Bronze Castle.

But even if the outer defense line collapsed, the vast soil... or Claude Francois still did not lose any fighting spirit; because the deserted stone castle is an extremely strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack fortress-Ai located in the west of the vast soil. Deng, hired a large number of imperial fortification experts during the construction, and built this copper wall and iron wall that is comparable to the Dengding Tower.

The Duke of Aiden who built the fortress was to defend against the threat of the rising Grand Duchy of Mist from the east; he also did not want to see a unified empire of the vast land kingdom, so naturally he did his best to build this fortress and used a lot of them. Technology and design later in the construction of Imperial Frontier Forts.

If you want to gnaw it down, the difficulty is no less than gnawing down the top tower.

And this time, there is no second one that can be crossed by the expeditionary army and bypass the Dawn Mountain Range behind the enemy; the communication line to the Iron Bell Fort is completely blocked by the defense line, and the only way to win the fortress is to attack it frontally.

"Do these Hantu people like being a tortoise?"

Holding the monocular, Caspar Herrede watched the thorn flower flag shrouded in smoke in the distance, and couldn't help complaining.

Behind him and to his left, thousands of Imperial line infantry were lined up in a standard "imperial dense phalanx", slowly advancing towards the battlefield to the cheerful and rhythmic drum beats, and the knights shouted. In the sound, he carried the rifle with the bayonet on his shoulder, as if it were a moving steel jungle.

On the other side of the temporary artillery positions, the imperial artillerymen were still maintaining repressive fire on the fortress;

And on the frontal battlefield, full of craters, flames, and apparently unfinished artillery, the Imperial cuirassiers and hussars, rushing back and forth, continued their happy "hunting", destroying any attempt to organize The guy who defended or turned back, crushed it with iron hooves, saber and carbine.

Under the cover of superior firepower, these proud knights counted each other's results, even organized various competitions, and recklessly enjoyed the joy of galloping on horses.

The empire that prides itself on knights has gradually realized that even well-equipped cuirassiers are difficult to break through the line of defense formed by the line infantry since the rise of the Clovis Kingdom, so the tactics have gradually changed from breakthroughs to detours. Put mobility first.

Therefore, only on the battlefield of Hantu, these proud knights can take advantage of the enemy's failure to react, and relive the "glorious yesterday" in the mouths of their grandfathers.

"The chief of the cuirass cavalry regiment reported that they have completely cleaned up all the Hantu troops who were still trying to resist. If they continue to move forward, it will be the city wall of the deserted stone castle."

Completely ignoring the grumpy old man's complaint, Bernard, the deputy commander of the expeditionary force, said with a blank expression: "He asked for the cavalry to retreat temporarily to make room for the infantry - the reason is that the horses could not climb the city wall."

"Does he think he's quite humorous for that son who knows how to trouble me all the time?" Kasper snorted coldly to his subordinates who were deliberately showing off:

"Ask him for me, since he and his cuirassiers are so good at fighting, why don't you rush to the defensive line on the east side of the deserted stone castle?!"

"It's very simple, because your humble and polite chief cuirassier regiment commander is a person who cherishes his life very much." There was also a mocking smile on Bernard's face:

"If you want to attack and penetrate the densely covered enemy fortresses, at least the eastern defense line of no less than 20,000 troops will be invested. Even if our heroic cuirassiers are strapped with blasting bombs, I'm afraid they can't do anything."

"Also, allow me to remind you that the pre-planned plan does not include raiding and capturing the road leading to Ironbell Castle from Aiden and cutting off the supply line of the Han soil army."

"But it's important!" the irritable Casper growled:

"No matter how strong the Imperial Expeditionary Force may be, we have only twenty thousand people and they have a hundred thousand - against such a large number of enemies, cutting off supplies is the best way to quickly defeat them; my good Bernard, so You don't understand the simple truth, do you?!"

"Yes, of course I understand."

Bernard nodded slightly, and then changed the conversation: "But our enemies also understand that, even the foolish Hantu people can see this - so they focus on guarding their supply lines, in order to beware of this kind of condition."

"If the expeditionary forces attack this line of defense with all their might, maybe they can really conquer it... Then what? We couldn't immediately attack the Barren Stone Fort due to the heavy casualties, and even if we lost supplies, the stock in the fortress would be enough for Claude F. Lançois insisted that he would run out of ammunition and food for at least ten days."

"Even before that, the Clovis people who smelled the blood would immediately go north and cooperate with the fortress defenders to attack us on both sides; we would not even be able to retreat at that time, because the only 'exit' to the top of the tower fortress had been taken by our own hands. 'Also' to the Hantu people."

"If I cut off their supply lines, I can kill them all in a month!"

The old man clenched his fists tightly, and a **** mouth full of mountains and mountains was revealed under his slightly trembling beard.

"Even if you don't do this, we can still defeat Hantu within a month... Moreover, I still think that you have done too much at the top of the tower." Bernard frowned slightly:

"You said that what Your Majesty wants is victory, and we only need to dedicate victory to His Majesty... When the Hantu '300,000 army' was easily defeated by you, Claude Francois would realize To how weak and powerless I am, I don't need to kill all of them."

"No need?!" The furious Casper raised his head sharply, staring at his deputy.

But Bernard was still unmoved, his unwavering eyes calmly met the bloodshot and yellow eyes of the old man, without saying a word.

The two who looked at each other were silent for a moment, but in the end it was Caspar Herrid who flinched.

The reason is also very simple. Although he is the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary army, as an old man who has retired for many years, the stinking Kaspar Hered has long been out of contacts in the imperial army.

Therefore, in addition to the senior generals personally appointed by the emperor, most of the middle-level officers and staff were recruited and selected by Bernard; to command the 20,000 expeditionary forces like an arm to continue their glory, Casper needed Bernard's Fully cooperate.

What's more important is that when he reached the fortress of the top tower, Casper had already made his deputy lose face once; even according to the principle of reciprocity, he must respect the other party at least once.

"Okay, I'll listen to you this time."

The old man sighed helplessly, and rolled his eyes in the direction of the Barren Rock Fortress: "I hope that old **** of Claude Francois can be as you wish, a smart person who can understand the situation."

"Yeah." Bernard was also secretly relieved. When dealing with such a boss who would kill the whole family, he was actually very worried:

"I hope so!"

Just as the two were arguing, the Imperial cavalry, who had swept away the defeated troops, began to move from the front to the flanks one after another, and a large number of Imperial line infantry began to dominate the battlefield - along the road pierced by the artillery, towards the city wall of the Barren Stone Castle. advance.

Realizing that the enemy had started a general attack, the defenders of the Barren Stone Fort finally began to fight back against the constant artillery coverage of the Empire; but the rare and inaccurate artillery shells, in addition to leaving a few craters on the already messy battlefield, It didn't have any killing effect at all.

Finally... With a deafening roar, the retaining wall of a fortification outside the fortress was penetrated by ricochet~www.mtlnovel.com~ The defenders in the fortress didn't even have time to escape, and were buried alive by the collapsed pile of rubble.

Seizing the opportunity, the Imperial Expeditionary Force immediately launched a surprise attack and rushed towards the small gap, less than two or three people wide; and the artillerymen, under the urging of the increasingly impatient Commander Casper, began to concentrate firepower near the gap, Try to kill as many defenders as possible after the breach.

"Boom!!!! Boom!!!! Boom!!!!"

A dull explosion accompanied by a slight vibration penetrated the impregnable city wall and entered Claude Francois' ears.

At this moment, the "King of Hantu", who was in an extremely bad mood, looked down at the map, his hands supporting his body pressed firmly against the feet of the long table, and his expression was full of concentration, as if he was completely oblivious to the constant roaring outside. I don't care.

In this dead silent hall, the originally high-spirited knights of the vast earth looked disheveled one by one at this moment, and they could no longer see the infinite pride and pride they had before, and everyone's expressions seemed extremely heavy.

The pride that was finally gained from defeating the Iser elven guards, and the delusion that "Imperial people are nothing more than that" because of the recapture of Carindia Harbor, was defeated in front of the terrifying front of the Imperial Expeditionary Force. Smashed to pieces.

All the previous mockery of the Mist Legion, the sarcasm and sarcasm of the "timid" Carl Bane, had all turned into weapons of mocking themselves at this moment, putting the **** reality before them.

The fact is that without the city walls of the Barren Stone Castle, they would not have performed much better than the "weak and incompetent" Mist Legion when they were raided by the Imperial Expeditionary Force... or even worse.

"Where are Anson Bach's reinforcements now, and why haven't they appeared yet?!"

Chapter end