I Will Be The Crowned King Chapter 421

The latest website: The army and people who were withdrawn from Grey Pigeon Castle were taken in, and there was only one option of retreating the New World Corps. There were two completely different routes in front of them:

The first plan is also the original plan: withdraw along the road to Red Hand Bay, continue to resettle the people to the rear, and the legion will be stationed on the spot, and cooperate with the reinforcements that catch up from the rear to build a defense line and prepare for the second round of the jihadist offensive.

But Boray Levant had assembled a very large fleet, and if he retreated like this, he would definitely be pursued, not to mention that he would almost certainly be harassed by his naval guns when passing through the coastal areas.

The second rule is to leave a considerable number of troops, and only send a very small number of troops to cover the retreat of the people. Be sure to hold the battleship of Borre Levant in the Black Reef Harbor and not easily leave.

This is also risky. After all, no one can guarantee that the opposing fleet can be firmly contained by the legion. Even if only a small number of ships use the fast landing method to intercept and ambush the retreating refugee team without sufficient army management, it may cause huge damage. casualties.

Of course, people can also make a detour from the inland mountains and forests, take a small road to the direction of Winter Torch City, then go south to Beluga Port, get supplies and then go to Winter Torch City... But there are almost no roads and supplies on this road in the true sense. It's hard to say which one is more dangerous than being shelled by the Mujahideen army.

After many comparisons, Anson and Louis still chose the second option, trying to hold on to the opposite side as much as possible, while letting the cavalry and a small number of elite troops **** the two colonists to retreat to the rear.

So on the night of June 1st, the New World Corps, which had few remaining positions, began to redeploy and deploy, and dispatched troops to prepare for a counter-offensive against the jihadist army that had controlled most of the city. A part of the artillery was assembled to focus on the opposite side, forcing the enemy's fleet. You must cover your own troops.

Of course, such a large-scale operation could not hide the enemy. When he noticed that the opposite side wanted to retreat, Boley Levent immediately prepared to deal with it. At the same time, he sent a messenger to Ludwig in Sail City for help, and provided artillery shells and light ships as soon as possible. Intercept and harass retreating teams.

The messenger entrusted with the important task rushed to Yangfan City at the fastest speed, and told Ludwig Chen Ludwig in detail about the situation, and said that this was a kind intention of Boray Levent, and he gave the military merit of "annihilating the main force of the enemy army" to him. Major General Ludwig.

"Please tell Mr. Boley Levent that I am grateful for this 'gift'!" Ludwig, who was lying on the bed and covered in bandages, smiled and said, "I will send reinforcements and supplies as soon as possible. ."

"Thank you so much! It's just that the fighter plane is fleeting, can you give a specific time?"

"It's... a bit difficult. After all, the current supplies in Yangfan City are not too abundant, and two fronts have to be supplied at the same time. To tell you the truth, Lord Arthur Hereid has been sending people non-stop in recent days. Come to urge supplies and reinforcements." Ludwig was very confused, but then his style changed:

"But don't worry, as long as I finish the work at hand and collect the supplies, I will give priority to the supplies to Lord Borre Levant!"

"Ah, thank you so much!"

The messenger left in relief, completely ignoring the sneer on Ludwig's face as he turned around.

Giving the credit to himself... He, Boley Levent, clearly wanted to use this method to test whether he and the New World Legion really had private contacts, and he was unwilling to share the military exploits of capturing the Black Reef Port, otherwise why didn't he pursue it? , but let the farther self intercept the deserters?

So the next day, the messenger really waited for the supplies and reinforcements, but it was not sent to Borre Lewent, but to the Arthur Hereid Legion in Grey Pigeon Castle.

The anxious messenger rushed to ask the reason, but Ludwig looked righteous: the commander of the Arthur Herrede had just sent a letter saying that he had broken the Grey Dove Castle and was eager to advance quickly; I haven't been able to win the Black Reef Port so far. Is it a little early to think about chasing deserters or something?

Besides, Yangfan City had already provided supplies to the Borei Legion before, which indirectly led to the lack of logistics of Arthur's Legion and had to attack Grey Pigeon Castle quickly despite casualties. A little too strong.

After some generous and well-founded remarks, the messenger was speechless, and he could only cry for reinforcements to be dispatched as soon as possible, so as not to delay such a good opportunity, and then Ludwig sent him out impatiently.

On the third day, Ludwig simply refused the messenger's request to see him on the grounds of "increasing illness", and also told the other party a "good news" - the vanguard of Arthur's Legion had already set off, and was about to meet with Borre Levin. The extradult attacked the Black Reef Port from the north and the south, and there is no need to worry about deserters.

The subtext is: don't think about deserters anymore, and then procrastinate like this, be careful that even the military exploits of Black Reef Harbor's capture of the city will be taken away by Arthur Herreid; let the feinting force become the main attack, you just wait Shame on it!

The frightened messenger immediately set off and returned, reporting the situation to his army commander.

After waiting for a long time for reinforcements to wait for this, Boley Levant, apart from scolding the Clovis people, is indeed a fake believer, and he has to start to worry about the next strategic plan. Now he is the one who has to face the dilemma— - Do you want to seize the Black Reef Port with all your strength, or do you want to intercept the main retreating enemy army?

After fighting for several days in a row, he didn't have much material and ammunition on hand, and the physical strength of the soldiers was even more severely depleted. On the contrary, because the opposite side had been trying to avoid the battle, the situation was much stronger than himself, and he had to end up with all of them. Don't want all of them, not only did they fail to hit the retreating enemy troops, but Arthur Herreid also took away the credit for taking the city.

But soon he found that he was thinking too much, and Anson and Louis on the opposite side had already made a decision for him-in the early morning of June 4th, while the Borre Legion was still eating breakfast, the New World Legion had shrunk to the edge of the town. Suddenly the attack was launched.

The corps was led by the 4th, 5th, and the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Regiments of the Storm Legion, which had just retreated from Grey Pigeon Castle, and the Sail City Regiment and Grey Pigeon Castle and Black Reef Harbor Militia were responsible for reinforcements, totaling 10,000 troops. Attacks were launched in three directions, with the goal of taking down the parliament in the center of the town.

As for the Grenadier Regiment, the cavalry units and even the logistics of each unit were escorted by Fabien and Chief of Staff Carl Bain immediately to **** the people to the rear.

The Black Reef Port, which had been calm for a few days, was once again enveloped by pungent gunpowder smoke and firelight. The jihadist soldiers who were awakened by the sound of gunfire looked at the Storm Legion from the town's central avenue in disbelief, thinking it was I was wrong.

Looking at the figures next to them falling one after another in the flames of the gun, they instantly sobered up and resolutely abandoned their positions and fled back.

Fifteen minutes after the start of the attack, the temporary defense line that the Bolei Legion had quietly built in the past few days declared bankruptcy, and the various guns and ammunition on the position became the spoils of the New World Legion. Around the city center.

Bo Lei, who was in a dilemma on the flagship, didn't get the information until half an hour later. He didn't even have time to scold people. He immediately ordered the naval guns to cover the town with firepower, of course, mainly aimed at the defense lines that had already fallen—— After spending several days in a row without replenishment, the fleet's shells have basically bottomed out.

Under the rapid artillery bombardment, the New World Army was forced to suspend the offensive, so that the Bolei Army finally had time to rectify the line of defense, so that the elite troops and the troops that were not attacked quickly gathered up the rout, and used platoons of guns and bayonets to deal with the officers who led the rout, and there was not much left to rely on. The fortifications rebuilt the defense line, and finally did not let the previous victory be wiped out in an instant.

In order to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, a reluctant 10,000-strong Borre Levant personally led the guards and family knights to land from the port with great fanfare, and personally commanded the offensive and defensive battle of Black Reef Harbor, in order to boost the morale of the legion.

At the same time, this is also a straightforward telling of Louis and Anson on the opposite side: I only need Black Reef Harbor, and nothing else matters.

The Marshal and Commander-in-Chief of the New World Legion, who understood it, continued to organize the attack, while urging the troops that had not retreated to evacuate as soon as possible, and could not give the opponent room to go back.

At 14:25, the Storm Legion, which had been fighting all morning, suddenly stopped the attack. Just when the Bolei Legion thought that the opponent's physical strength was exhausted and planned to suspend the offensive, the Sail City Legion and the Black Reef Harbor Militia were always closely behind. Alternately launch the attack and continue to push the front towards the Parliament.

Compared with the Mujahideen Army who had just occupied the city for a few days, the New World Corps obviously had a better understanding of the structure of Black Reef Harbor. After being severely hit by platoons of guns and naval artillery, a large number of militiamen immediately got into the street. house, and fired black guns at jihadist soldiers from the flank.

The Bolei Legion responded quickly, and their solution was to simply set fire to it-since they had no advantage here, the enemy would not be able to take advantage.

Countless houses were set on fire, and with the repeated bombardment of naval artillery, the surrounding area of ​​the city center was quickly razed to the ground; the sky-high flames and dark smoke columns formed a "natural boundary", dividing the town into two.

As a result, the entire city center was made impossible to defend by the opposite side. Hundreds of jihadist line soldiers huddled in the parliament, backed by the fleet, and any attacking army had to face both the artillery field and the enemy. Under the double blow of condescending firepower - it seems to be temporarily invulnerable.

Until the Storm Legion finally dragged their "new toy" - a six-pounder howitzer.

This weapon, which combines the strengths of cannons and mortars—of course it can also be said to be weak—has a very important advantage, although the range is reduced, that is, it can perform more accurate curved shots.

Two for each infantry regiment, a total of ten howitzers fired rapidly at the Borre Legion positions behind the Parliament at the same time; with a series of explosions, dozens of shrapnel exploded above the heads of the Mujahideen soldiers, thousands of Tens of thousands of lead bullets swept toward the dense flesh and blood in the position like raindrops.

At this time, Bolley Levent, who was in command of the port position, watched the dozens or hundreds of soldiers in the position torn to pieces in the screams, and his face was extremely ugly.

At the same time as the shelling ended, he immediately issued an order for the defenders to withdraw from the parliament - an isolated fortress was meaningless, but as long as this stronghold still existed, the troops in the rear were all the targets of the New World Corps shelling. .

At 15:25, the Mujahideen was forced to withdraw from the periphery of the city center, and the 13-star ring flag of the Free Confederation was once again planted on the top of the tower of the Black Reef Harbor Council.

However, the New World Legion that controlled this stronghold did not pursue the victory, but stopped the offensive and organized defenses on the spot; after all, Anson and Louis's goal was to hold the Mujahideen and their fleet, and did not really think about driving him into the sea.

Boley Lewent, who had guessed the opposite idea to some extent, was not in a hurry, and let the troops stick to the place - anyway, Arthur Herrede's army has conquered the Grey Dove Castle and will kill them at any time. He is anxious but the opposite must be more anxious. .

Boley's idea was completely correct, but what he didn't know was that Arthur, who had just conquered Grey Pigeon Castle, was completely incapable of organizing an attack, and it would be impossible for him to take the credit for Black Reef Harbor for a while.

So the result was that he wasted another day, consumed the ammunition and got nothing, and the New World Corps calmly began to orderly and withdrawn from the Black Reef Port in batches.

In the early morning of June 5th, when he realized that most of the opponents had already evacuated, he immediately ordered an attack and easily recaptured the parliament in the city center. Watching the broken enemy calmly withdraw from the battlefield.

On June 6th, who still did not wait for the news of Arthur Hereid's arrival, it was Borre Levant who felt that something was wrong, so he sent a messenger to contact him - and he bypassed Sail City and went directly to Grey Dove Castle.

At the risk of being intercepted by the enemy~www.mtlnovel.com~, being ambushed by the natives, being targeted by wild animals, and getting lost in the forest, the messenger ran back and forth desperately, and then told Borre Levant to let him again. Angry information - Arthur Hereid and his legion are resting and have just set off!

At the same time, Anson and Louis, who led the legion, had successfully merged with the follow-up reinforcements and successfully arrived at Red Hand Bay.

In addition to the members of the Supreme Council, the people who came to greet them also had a figure who did not often appear on weekdays: the leader of the Faithful Alliance, Bishop Ripo.

"About the application and requirements put forward by the two adults, everyone in the legion and His Excellency Reinhard Roland have already conveyed to you respectively; it is not too much to say that it is realistic, but..."

The bishop, who was dressed in plain clothes and exuded some kind of fanaticism, took a deep breath and asked in a strong voice: "To consecrate a hero who died at the hands of the jihadist army in the name of the Ecumenical Emperor is tantamount to facing the church directly. declare war."

"Two...have you really made this awareness?!"

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