Chapter 58: Form a formation to meet the enemy(1/2)
At dawn, the scouts came out to bring back the information that the Hud cavalry was approaching.
The information sent to the camp at the same time as the "big troop Hed cavalry is approaching" was sent to the camp, which was the North Bank camp's request for help.
The outpost battle had begun, and the leadership of the Palatu army was divided.
Some people want to stop the attack and prepare to face the enemy reinforcements; some people ask to launch a general attack, and must break the city before the reinforcements arrive; some people reiterate the old story, thinking that the time to attack Bian Li has been lost, so they should withdraw their troops and make plans.
At the temporary meeting, Colonel Laslow, the chief captain of the Fifth Legion, roared with red eyes: "The battle is all about breath! The city is now unstoppable! Withdrawal? Tell me how to retreat? If you retreat, you may never be able to fight again! If the barbarians in the city take advantage of the situation, it will be the battle of Dragelbet recur!"
Cavalry Colonel Haugwitz was not willing to be outdone and shouted: "What's the use of not destroying the reinforcements? If you don't take Bian Li and are surrounded behind your back, the entire army will be in danger of destruction! If you destroy the reinforcements, Bian Li will be ours sooner or later. If you can't defeat the reinforcements, we will all finish it! It's that simple!"
"Don't you fucking shit!"
"I'm fighting with you!"
"What's the noise?" Major General Alpad overturned the table, and the exquisite porcelain bottle was smashed.
The two people who were about to perform the full martial arts just now immediately fell silent.
After General Yanosh suffered a stroke, there was no one in Palatu's army who could make the decision.
The previous retreat faction has now become the siege faction, and the previous siege faction has now become the siege faction in the attacking faction.
Just like only a small part of the iceberg floating on the water, the battle between Laslow and Haugwitz is a struggle of strategy, a struggle of route, and a dispute between infantry factions and cavalry factions.
When General Yanosh commanded the entire army, the competition could be presented in a healthy situation. Because the Admiral was a faction of all factions, his prestige and wisdom were enough to conquer everyone.
But when the general is disabled, the contradictions that have been covered up in the past will immediately intensify.
"The worst strategy is that there is no strategy. If you fight, it's better to just stretch your neck and chop it up for the barbarian!" Brigadier General Sekler said coldly: "Major General Alpad and I have made up our minds."
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At dawn, the sky is getting brighter.
The victory and loss of the battle for Bianlixi Acropolis was decided. When the barbarians were defeated, Palatu soldiers rushed into the city wall one by one.
The Huds, who were in despair, began to set fire to the city.
In winter, the weather is dry and the city is full of thatched houses and wooden houses. In an instant, the Xi Acropolis turned into a sea of fire.
The low clouds were burned red by the fire, and even the morning glow was eclipsed.
The wind assisted the fire, and the fire spread rapidly towards the outer wall. The Palatu troops who invaded the Acropolis had no choice but to retreat outside the city.
The fire temporarily separated the two sides, and the Paratu army controlled the outer wall, but the main city was still firmly in the hands of the Heds.
The messengers at the headquarters of the Legion took great effort to find the chief centurion of the Sixth Legion in the city.
"Transfer? Tell me again! Transfer?" Captain Baraz's eyes seemed to be about to choose someone in the next second.
He grabbed the messenger's shoulder tightly, and his fingers were deeply trapped in the flesh on the other party's shoulder.
The poor messenger was a little weak, and he stumblingly repeated the command: "Order your troops to escape from the battle, gather their troops, retreat to the attack position, and reorganize and standby."
Captain Balaz pulled off his helmet and smashed it hard to the ground.
Because the wind is northwest, there is still a small area in the northwest corner of the Acropolis that has not spread.
Balaz is leading people to build isolation belts and use house beams to create simple siege hammers. He attacks the main city gate just when the fire weakens.
The military order was like a mountain. The captain looked at the shadowy inner wall behind the fire and smoke, and weakly spoke out a word: "Retreat."
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When the Baraz Centenists received the retreat order, Winters had just entered West Acropolis.
He jumped into the gap in the city wall, and a scorching wave of heat immediately came to his face.
The city was filled with burnt smell, and Qiang Yun shook his head unhappily, and the horse didn't like it at all.
After the thick smoke rolled, there were creepy screams from time to time. It was the person who was being burned to death.
"Have you met Lieutenant Mason?" Winters asked everyone, "Where is Lieutenant Mason?"
The five infantry brigades responsible for the early siege were retreating, and the soldiers were like sardines, each of them blindly following the others.
Several centurions were leading people to break the walls to prevent the Heds from occupying the Acropolis again.
But after more soldiers walked out of the city wall, they just sat on the ground and gasped heavily, unable to lift their arms.
Although the siege was stopped, the results of the battle could not be thrown away. A full brigade was heading towards the Acropolis, and the order they received was to repel any enemy who tried to regain the outer wall.
Winters, who was moving against the crowd, asked all the way, and kept shouting with amplification.
"Here!"
"here!"
Winters looked up in the sound, and Lieutenant Mason on the wall was waving hard.
He ran up to the city wall, and the lieutenant in front of him was carrying several subordinates to lift a bronze cannon.
"Stop moving! Come with me!"
Several people threw down the cannon after hearing this.
Mason wiped the ashes from his face randomly and asked anxiously: "Why are you retreating? I heard that the reinforcements from the Hurds are coming? There are so many that they can't count them?"
"Who said that?" Winters raised his eyebrows.
"Everyone is saying this!"
"There are Hurds coming from the north, but there are not countless... Let's talk about it when you go back!"
"What should I do about this thing?" Mason pointed to the cannon at his feet.
"Take this! Can you still lose it?"
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When Winters and Mason rushed back to the camp, the Jeska team was gathering.
In the camp assigned to the militia auxiliary troops, the ten-men's chief shouted and scolded one after another.
One of the key points of a quick team assembly is that everyone must know where they are standing, and the Paratu militia obviously don't know much about this.
Seeing that the two centurions had just returned to the team now, Lieutenant Colonel Jeska was a little displeased: "What have you done?"
"If Montane hadn't gone to find me, I wouldn't have known that there would be an emergency meeting." Lieutenant Mason couldn't help but ask Lieutenant Colonel: "Sir, how many Huds have come?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "I don't know yet." Jeska's expression was grim: "Let your people be ready first."
During the siege last night, the Jeska brigade did not directly participate in the battle. Half of Winters' subordinates were on duty in the trench, and the other half were on standby in the camp.
The militias in the camp quickly assembled, and it took some time for the militias to assemble on duty.
Fortunately, Winters' ten husbands were capable enough that he didn't need to do everything himself.
Most militias could not hide their panic on their faces, which made Winters glad that he had some "veterans" who had seen blood as backbone.
Mason, who rushed back, found the lieutenant colonel and asked for instructions, and hurriedly brought more men and carriages to leave - to move the cannons.
Lieutenant Bard, who was in charge of the ordnance, began to distribute weapons, armor and ammunition to the militia.
The Jeska Brigade seized more than a hundred pieces of Hedzajia along the way, which were kept and repaired by the brigade arsenal on weekdays, and now it is all distributed to Winters' Spearman.
Some temporary armor changed from Hed horse armor to be distributed together. Changing the horse armor to human armor was still the idea of the blacksmith Berryon.
[Note: Hed horse armor and human armor use the same armor piece]
Because of its replenishment and strengthening, the strength of the Jieshika Brigade has reached eight hundred-man teams - two more than the full brigade.
Therefore, the lieutenant colonel readjusted the group and changed the 100-man team from "flower team" to "pure team".
[Note: Flower team is a hundred-man team with mixed weapons, pure team is a hundred-man team with single weapon]
Nowadays, the composition of the Jeska team is complex, with Winters' two teams of spearmen and halberds the most reliable, followed by Andre's two teams of musketeers and crossbowmen.
Winters and Andre's subordinates were mainly the old team of the brigade and the newly added militia.
Compared with Lieutenant Bard and Lieutenant Mason's men, they seem to be mixed: labor prisoners, forced merchants, remnants of other militia teams... all kinds of people are there.
To some extent, these "mobs" were brought by Bud and Mason, because only the two of them could lead them.
Dusak riders were led by Lieutenant Colonel Jeska himself.
Winters walked in the queue, checking his weapons and armor one by one.
Half of his subordinates were wearing Palathu half armor, and the other half was wearing Hedza armor. At first glance, it looked very strange and could not even tell which soldier it was.
"Where is the way to wear this?" Winters stopped in front of an armored spearman.
He was anxious and could not help but feel angry when he spoke: "Why do you put the rope outside?"
The spearman shrank his neck when he heard this.
"Your name is Ish?" Winters remembered the spearman's name: "Is it you?"
Ish of Ganshui Town nodded quickly. He reached out to pull the rope open, but his movements were very clumsy and he couldn't touch the rope head.
Winters had an acute attack and directly untied the spearman's arm armor and quickly put it on the spearman: "According to my binding method, put the knot inside for me!"
When Ish came to his senses, the lieutenant had already walked in front of others.
To be continued...