Volume 3 Chapter 22 Myna’s Strategy (1)
"Hold on! Hold on! Don't let anyone break through!"
"Team A5, assault the enemy's right wing! Damn it, if you can't get in, you'll all die there!"
"Mage! Archers! Shoot now! Speed up! Move faster!"
On the battlefield, roars, shouts, screams, explosions and the commander's orders, all kinds of sounds mixed together . I was already dizzy from killing, and I didn't know anything except leading the cavalry to sprint back and forth. The only thing that was certain was that there were more and more enemies around me, and fewer and fewer comrades!
Suddenly, several sharp arrows flew towards me. I dodged most of them with my accurate reaction, but was still hit by two arrows.
This damage is insignificant to me, but I was shocked. Ao Shi's ranged troops have also begun to land! In this way, our ranged troops will inevitably be suppressed. Wouldn't it be easier for the other side to cross the river ?
We have reached our limit! Nearly a thousand masters of the Thunder Alliance and all low-level members have been pinned down by the gangs in the second line of defense. Among the remaining 2,000 masters, hundreds have been killed three times. All those who can participate in the battle are here! However, the enemy's number is more than ten times ours. Although less than 10,000 have successfully crossed the river, we cannot withstand it. If we retreat now, we can hold on for a while by using the buildings near the headquarters. When reinforcements arrive, there may be a turnaround. If we don't leave, we will be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy. The loss is too great, and there will be a sequence of resurrection. It will be difficult to concentrate our strength by then, and we will be completely finished!
Alas, I was too careless. If I had known that Ao Shi would attack, I would have been prepared tactically and the situation would have been much better. However, I only paid attention to the gangs beforehand and didn't take them seriously, and didn't ask for help early. Will we lose this battle like this? Will the Thunder Alliance become the first gang to be established and the first to be disbanded in the history of Fantasy?
I chopped an enemy away and led my knight team of only a hundred people to rush out of the enemy camp. I was about to find Momo and Xiaowu and order them to command the alliance members to retreat, but a group of orc berserkers rushed towards me!
Tigermen, lionmen, leopardmen...hundreds of sturdy and powerful guys rushed forward, and behind them were the members of the Thunder Alliance cheering: "Reinforcements are coming! Brothers, counterattack!"
The leader of the team was a tall minotaur, holding a huge axe and walking very fast. Who else could it be other than the starling?
I was surprised and happy. The battle just now was so intense that I didn't notice that more than 10 minutes had passed. The reinforcements finally arrived!
The orc berserker's melee combat ability can be regarded as the number one dream profession. Although the impact force is not as strong as that of the knight, when hundreds of berserkers march in formation, their momentum is like a moving castle. As soon as their vanguard comes into contact with the arrogant ranks, they rush in with a pressure that crushes everything, and immediately stabilizes the position of our left wing.
Well, the teleportation array can only allow 100 people to pass through in one minute. Myna must have made arrangements to form such an elite force to rescue us in the first place!
Obviously, reinforcements are being sent to the teleport point continuously. The longer we hold on, the more favorable the situation will be for us! We can't let the enemy break through the river bank position, otherwise the 10,000 troops on the other side of Ao Shi will easily cross the river and may surround the teleport point or destroy our headquarters before our reinforcements are sent!
With Starling's berserker troops on the left wing, it should be able to hold out for a while, but the right wing was in danger, so I quickly led the cavalry to charge again!
The number of landing personnel of Ao Shi on the right wing has reached about three thousand, while there are only seven or eight hundred members of the Thunder Alliance fighting there. The defense line no longer exists and is divided into three parts by Ao Shi and surrounded. The members form a circle and are still barely resisting, but it is only a matter of time before they are wiped out.
I did not go directly to rescue the besieged brothers, but led my team to attack the Ao Shi long-range troops who had just landed on the river bank.
This trick was indeed effective. Hundreds of Ao Shi's combat team members immediately rushed over in a panic to intercept us. They didn't expect me to feint a shot and didn't waste time on fighting with them. I led the team to rush along the river. The infantry could not catch up with the knights, and the enemy cavalry also wanted to come up to intercept them. I sent out a team of ten people, which blocked the enemy for a moment. Although it only took a few tens of seconds for all ten brothers to die, this time was enough for the cavalry!
We rushed along the river from the west end of the Ao Shi position to the east end. Although we didn't kill many people, we threw the enemy's long-range forces into chaos and mobilized a large number of enemy troops to chase us in vain, delaying the time for the brothers in the encirclement to be annihilated.
However, this kind of harassment tactic can only be used once. After all, the other side has more than 200 knights. Although they are not as well-trained as us, they are also under unified command. They were just blocked by my strategy of sacrificing a pawn, but now they have caught up with us. I used the same strategy again and sent out a team of 10 people. The other side also sent out a team of 20 people to deal with them. The main force was relentless in pursuit, and I had no choice but to lead the team to fight!
Both sides charged at full speed and passed each other in an instant. In terms of numbers, the other side had twice as many as us, but we coordinated well and maintained a complete formation while running at high speed. We concentrated our attack power and in the fight, almost everyone on our side was injured, but only more than 10 people were killed, while more than 30 people on the other side fell off their horses!
Well... it doesn't matter if we fight to the end. Most of my cavalry members have only died once. Even if they all die here, I can regroup them again. However, annihilating Ao Shi's cavalry will greatly reduce the opponent's mobile combat capability. They will not be able to return to the battlefield immediately! It seems that the enemies on the other side are mostly mid-range and auxiliary professions. It is estimated that there will be no large-scale knights.
Thinking of this, I no longer cared about the casualties of my subordinates, and led my troops back to fight a desperate battle with the enemy cavalry!
Of course, when we fight with fewer people against more, even if the enemy suffers more casualties than us, when our remaining personnel are getting fewer and fewer, and it is even difficult to organize a complete formation, the advantage of coordination will no longer be brought into play. At that time, it will be impossible to achieve the goal of both sides suffering losses, and we will end up in a miserable defeat! Therefore, tactics are very important!
As I directed with gestures, the cavalry formation behind me changed dramatically. More than 30 members with a stronger physique and higher defense followed closely behind me, rushed into the enemy formation, and then spread out to the two wings. With a small number of troops, they blocked the enemy's large force! The remaining more than 60 knights with a stronger attack were divided into two teams, and rushed out to the left and right along the two wings of the first echelon, surrounding . This is how I subdivided the cavalry. Those with high defense and equipment that also focused on defense were heavy cavalry, which could be used for tasks such as attacking and blocking; those with high attack were also equipped with high-attack equipment, and were light cavalry, responsible for assaulting and annihilating the enemy. The two cooperated in combat. As long as the tactics were appropriate, they could give full play to their respective strengths, which was more effective than everyone trying to be comprehensive!
In this way, we were able to withstand the opponent's pressure with high defense - in fact, in this kind of mobile warfare, it was impossible for the opponent to put all its troops on the front line. The enemy troops in the back row were blocked by their own people. The enemy we faced did not exceed fifty cavalry, and on the other side we gained a local troop advantage. After training, the allies demonstrated superb coordination skills, with two cavalry in a group, focusing on attacking one enemy. It was difficult for the opponent's counterattack to quickly kill a knight - although he was a low-defense knight, he himself could not replenish his blood under the attack of two high-attack enemies, and he could not hold on after a few rounds and was eliminated one by one.
This is similar to the micro-operation skills in real-time strategy games. With proper command, some small units can exert more than three times the combat effectiveness (for example, the Protoss vs. Zerg dog sea in StarCraft, using Templars to block the front line and Dragoons in the back firing photon cannons is much stronger than using pure Templars or pure Dragoons)!
Of course, the outcome of a war often depends on the strategic level. It is very rare to lose the strategy but rely on tactics to win a comeback. This time, the violent group and Ao Shi formed an alliance to attack the Jinglei League, which completely played a trick on me strategically. Although the reinforcements have arrived now, the transmission capacity is limited, and the entire battlefield situation has deteriorated. I have no idea whether the reinforcements from the Brotherhood League and Tianshui Pavilion can turn the tide. For the Jinglei League, this was a really bad battle. If we can win by chance, we must remember this lesson in the future!
