Volume 5 Chapter 17: The Iron-Blooded End (1)
On that day, smoke was everywhere around Pojun City, and the sound of killing was deafening. The northwest plain, which was originally very peaceful compared to the Central Plains, was now ignited by a raging war!
The fourteen gangs of the Grand Alliance simultaneously declared war on the fourteen small gangs under the Iron Blood Alliance. In addition, the Thunder Alliance declared war on the branch of the Iron Blood's ally, the Ninth City, in Pojun City!
The battle started at the same time in fifteen battlefields. The Iron Blood Alliance originally had thirty-four small gangs, and lost eleven of them in the last battle. During the three days of truce, the Iron Blood Alliance tried its best to win over those neutral gangs, but because the Grand Alliance launched a propaganda offensive in a timely manner, the neutral gangs were intimidated by the Grand Alliance's power and vague warnings, and most of them did not dare to express their support for the Iron Blood. The result of the Iron Hoof's efforts was only to recruit three gangs to join, and today these three gangs are on the list of the Grand Alliance's declaration of war. This is also an attitude we want to show: whoever dares to join the Iron Blood Alliance will be killed without mercy! Therefore, the Iron Blood Alliance currently has a total of twenty-six small gangs and the Pojun Iron Blood Alliance itself. On average, each battlefield can only gather the forces of two small gangs for defense, which is obviously not enough compared to the strength of the gangs in the Grand Alliance. The best choice for the Iron Blood Alliance is to concentrate its forces to save some gangs and abandon the others.
Ah Wei led his troops to the Jiucheng Branch (formerly the Yinyue Guanghua Territory). This kid played tricks and ordered long-range troops to attack from a long distance at the beginning. However, his troops were so far away from the opponent's fortifications that they were not even within the range!
Ah Wei acted as if "I'm just here to tease you, I don't want to attack you seriously". The soldiers of Jiucheng were nervous for a while and were busy setting up the defense line, but later they saw that the opponent's magic arrows fell to the ground before they hit the fortifications, and they all laughed. When the scouts later reported that the opponent had only 5,000 people, the people of Jiucheng didn't take Ah Wei seriously anymore, and some people even suggested sending a troop to destroy the people of Jinglei League, and then they could seize the initiative in both advance and retreat, attack and defense. If the situation permits, it is not impossible to send some personnel to support Tiexue. Why should they trap their own 100,000 troops here and dare not move out just because of the opponent's small number of people?
The commander of the Jiucheng branch was very excited after hearing this proposal. He knew that he would never allow the defense of his garrison to be compromised by sending out enough troops to wipe out 5,000 people. He did not need to be afraid even if the Thunder Alliance had ambushes in other directions. So he waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to go into battle!
Cavalry is of course the best choice for proactively attacking and destroying the enemy in the wild. The most important task that Wu Meng, the boss of Jiucheng, assigned to the branch commander was to firmly guard the branch. Therefore, the garrison of Jiucheng in the branch was mainly defensive professions, and the proportion of knights was not high, but there were still two cavalry divisions with a total of 4,000 people, which was enough to attack the 5,000-man formation of the Thunder Alliance. With the addition of 6,000 infantry following up, what was there to worry about losing?
Four thousand cavalrymen rushed out of the gate of the garrison with a momentum like a tsunami, and launched a group charge towards Awei's troops in the distance!
Even if I were in command personally, unless these 5,000 men were of the same caliber as the Thunder Regiment, it would be difficult to withstand an attack of this scale!
Ah Wei immediately ordered the ranged troops to shoot at the enemy cavalry. Under the dense rain of arrows and magic attacks, the Nine City cavalry continued to fall off their horses and die, causing a total loss of three to four hundred cavalry. This ratio was already very high. If the members of the Thunder Alliance were not well-trained and could form a concentrated attack, such an effect would not be possible.
But the knights charged too fast, and the long-range troops of the Thunder Alliance had no more opportunities to attack. Seeing that the Jiucheng cavalry was about to charge into the ranks of the Thunder Alliance, suddenly "Oh! Ouch!" a cry of surprise rang out, and the cavalry in the front row fell off their horses one after another. It was impossible for their companions behind to pause for a moment during the charge, and the iron hooves of the war horses trampled over these unfortunate knights continuously. When they advanced to the ground, they fell down one after another, and were trampled by the cavalry behind them!
Ah Wei was a mischievous person by nature, and before setting off, when he was selecting his troops, he specifically asked to take away all the more than 300 thieves in the alliance!
Lemming was temporarily transferred from the head of the intelligence team to the captain of this thieves' group. According to Awei's request, when those long-range attackers were shooting arrows and setting fires at the Jiucheng garrison, with the help of other soldiers to cover their bodies, they quietly set countless traps on the ground!
Before the Jiucheng cavalry set out, Awei ordered the troops to slowly move back a distance and place them behind a group of traps. Because they were far away from the Jiucheng garrison, the other side did not notice this small move.
This was originally the territory of the Nine Cities. How could the enemy have expected that Ah Wei would bring so many thieves with him? During the battle, he secretly dug so many traps under the enemy's noses? The cavalrymen rushed up without any precautions, and ended up rolling on the ground one by one!
These traps were hastily made. Ah Wei's order was that the more the better. So the level was not very high and the lethality was not great. They were just some tripwires, horse pits (a honeycomb-shaped bowl-sized hole on the ground, designed to trap horse hooves), and at most some iron nails and spikes. They were very crude and could be seen by a discerning person at a glance. They would not fall for it. However, the knights were weak in that they had no identification skills (the protagonist was a dual-class, and gaze was an archer skill). The speed of the charge was too fast. Who could see what was on the ground at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour? It was natural for them to be hit. The damage they suffered was not serious. They could just get up and fight again. At this time, another disadvantage was reflected. They were charging in a large group! The front row fell, and the back row could not stop at all. One unicorn after another stepped on them!
The fantasy was very real. Being trampled by heavy horse hooves required a very strong attack power. Even with the high defense of the knights, they could not withstand being trampled by thousands of horses. Therefore, once they fell down, they rarely had a chance to stand up again. Even if they did not die, they would at most have one breath left!
Awei's trap was very effective. Jiucheng lost more than two thousand cavalrymen. Although the remaining one thousand or so cavalrymen rushed to the front of the Thunder Alliance troops, two thousand soldiers had already lined up and were waiting. It would be difficult for such a small number of troops to break through the thick infantry phalanx!
The remaining soldiers of the Nine Cities barely launched an attack, but they were all firmly blocked by the well-coordinated soldiers of the Thunder Alliance. The long-range troops in the inner layer took the opportunity to fire indiscriminately, and they were having a great time. These were simply living targets that came to their doorstep!
After losing another six or seven hundred cavalrymen, the Jiucheng cavalry collapsed. The remaining hundreds of soldiers and horses turned around and fled, and countless of them were shot and killed along the way. Only about a hundred cavalrymen escaped back to the base, and everyone was injured!
All this happened in the blink of an eye. Before the commander of Jiucheng could react, his cavalry was almost wiped out, and the 6,000 infantry sent out to follow the cavalry in the attack had not even walked a hundred meters away from the gate!
Although the commander was so angry that he almost vomited blood, fortunately he still had a trace of rationality and quickly ordered the infantry to turn around. Without the cooperation of the cavalry, it would be impossible for 6,000 infantry to defeat the 5,000 troops of the Thunder Alliance.
And what about Ah Wei? He ordered calmly: Clean up the battlefield!
So, in full view of the nearly 100,000 troops of Jiucheng, the members of the Thunder Alliance began to slaughter the horses (after the knight died, the mount would be left on the battlefield until the owner was resurrected in the Samsara Palace, and the mount would automatically run back to the owner. During this period, the mount would be in the state of a wild monster and would die if attacked. Then, the resurrected knight would have to tame a mount again). Occasionally, when they found one or two Jiucheng cavalrymen who were trampled and seriously injured in the herd, they would immediately attack them with more than a dozen swords to ensure a clean and painless return, while looting the equipment dropped by the Jiucheng cavalrymen (Note 1).
The lemmings protested: "We thieves have made such a great contribution, shouldn't we leave some soup?"
Therefore, any wounded soldier who is discovered again will be in trouble, as more than 300 thieves will rush forward, stealing from the sky, fishing for the moon in the bottom of the sea, and stealing with their magic hands... a variety of theft skills will be displayed, and they will not stop until the opponent is stripped down to his underwear. During the alliance war, no sin value will be added for attacking enemy personnel. This is a rare opportunity!
The lemming was kind-hearted. He stopped killing the naked enemy soldiers and called for a priest to heal them from serious injuries, and then let them go. As a result, about a dozen Knights of the Nine Cities saved their lives, but it seemed that they all went back crying?
After dealing with the Nine City Cavalry, Ah Wei continued to provoke the Nine City garrison in various ways, but he would never approach their garrison. The Nine City commander was almost mad at him, but he could do nothing about it. The cavalrymen were resurrected from the Samsara Palace one by one, but they had almost lost all their mounts. How could they catch thousands of unicorns in a short time? They had no choice but to temporarily switch to infantry. If we send a large number of infantry to encircle and suppress them, the other side would just turn around and leave. Everyone relies on their own two legs, so who can catch who? Not to mention that we have to beware of other ambushes hidden by the Thunder Alliance!
The soldiers of Jiucheng were already furious at the actions of Ah Wei and Lemmings, especially after seeing more than a dozen knight companions coming back naked, they all requested to go out to fight to avenge the cavalry. The commander was a tough man, and even after being insulted, he gritted his teeth and refused all his subordinates' requests for battle, and ordered the army not to move rashly! He was afraid that the other party did it on purpose, just to trick them into attacking. What if there really were other troops attacking and the garrison fell? What would Wu Meng do to him when he returned? Not sending troops and guarding the garrison well, at least it would be considered as no merit or fault!
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Note 1: After the Fantasy upgrade, the setting of serious injury was added, which only applies to the situation of gang wars. If you are injured in a gang war and only have less than 100 HP left but you are not dead, you will be seriously injured, unable to move, unable to take medicine, and unable to use scrolls to escape. Unless a comrade-in-arms uses a very high-level healing technique to treat you, the serious injury state will last for 30 minutes. Compared with the thousands of HP of characters above level 50, the probability of serious injury is actually very small, but there are always unlucky people who will encounter it. This setting was introduced because the "prisoner" function was added to the gang war, which can capture seriously injured opponent personnel as prisoners of war, and then ask the opponent gang for ransom or exchange prisoners of war, otherwise they have the right to detain prisoners of war for up to one week. This increases the authenticity of the war, and in fact this rule is mainly aimed at gang commanders. If you capture a very capable general or even the head of the other party, and detain him for a week so that he cannot lead the army to fight during this period, then the enemy gang will suffer a great loss. There was no point in capturing ordinary gang members as prisoners, and under the current circumstances it was not appropriate for the Thunder Alliance to take prisoners, so Ah Wei issued a "cruel" order to kill the prisoners.
