It was 9:30 in the morning after taking a break at the Black Cloud Iron Fortress. Now Marshal Helen was one of the top two, because the order given to him by the Imperial Capital was very vague. First of all, the Black Cloud Iron Fortress had to be guarded, because the Black Cloud Iron Fortress was
The last pass in the buffer zone of the northwest border of Demon Moon. If it is broken here, the army of the Gripen Empire heading east will enter the hinterland of the western interior of Demon Moon. He, the border marshal, will have an unshirkable responsibility.
However, the Prime Minister conveyed the order of King XVII not to fight hard, but to preserve strength until the countermeasures were figured out. It also required that the military decision-making on the front line should be made by Marshal Helen, King of the North Dutch, and Hanard, the special envoy of the Central Empire.
and the general of the Anmosidu garrison to discuss and decide together.
The General of the Western Capital Guard was planning to arrange the defense of the Western Capital and was unable to come to the front line. Hanard, who was temporarily granted the status of a special envoy from the Empire Central Committee, did not know his whereabouts. The matter could only be decided through discussion between Helen and Dutch. However, Dutch did not want to make a decision and only talked about fighting.
Just call him and do nothing else. Even if there is a war situation meeting, he will only listen but not speak.
Logically speaking, as the marshal of the border, it is a good thing for Helen to be able to arbitrarily command. However, if there are any consequences caused by unfavorable command, the responsibility will be borne by him alone. And he does not have the background of Hanard and the King of the North. The situation
And he was at a huge disadvantage. Once the Black Cloud Iron Barrier fell and Anmosi was faced with the end of the war, he was determined to carry this big black iron pot.
The wise general Dean Page knew the marshal's distress and called him into a small house. He told him that the defense would definitely not be able to be defended, but the enemy claimed to have mobilized a million troops and was marching at a fast pace. The follow-up troops would certainly not be able to keep up.
, the enemies who come to the front of Iron Cloud Fortress can only be a small number of their elite cavalry, and now is the time to give them a hard blow. Repeling their vanguard can buy you some buffer time.
Helen felt that what he said made sense. Although the attack on the camp last night was unsuccessful, it was absolutely impossible to wait and be beaten passively. This could also save him some responsibility for his inability to unite the border. He immediately agreed to the idea and returned to the battle situation immediately.
The room finalized the matter of going to war with the King of the North, the leader of the Frost Knights, and the commander of the garrison, Donald.
The garrison of Heiyun Iron Fortress is 3,000 people, including about 55,000 people who have been withdrawn from various military camps on the border, plus 6,000 militia reserves who have been privately recruited in Heiyun Iron Fortress in the past two years, and 2,500 people from the Frost Knights.
However, not all members of the Frost Knights came. 500 people stayed in the territory more than 10,000 kilometers away, and only 2,000 people actually came here.
At this time, there were a total of 66,000 people in Heiyun Iron Fortress and its surrounding areas. They did not yet know the specific number of enemy troops, but the intelligence obtained from reconnaissance showed that the number of tents and the size of the enemy's camp would not exceed 20,000 troops.
Helen decided to send four forces from the left, center and right to attack. A mixed main force composed of light cavalry, shield soldiers, infantry, etc., launched a large-scale attack on the enemy's position from the front; the heavy cavalry on the left marched through the open area, etc.
After the battle started in the middle, they launched a charge towards the enemy's camp; on the right, they picked out elite crossbow troops and a small number of mages, and detoured to two highlands to the north of the enemy to stand by. Then all the remaining air cavalry provided air cover and guidance. 9,000 people were left to defend the city.
In the morning, the soldiers had an early lunch, and the battle in the afternoon went according to the script. There was a fierce battle between the two sides. The heavy cavalry led by Dutch, the main force led by Helen, the elite Frost Knights with air cover, and General Zhi.
All the members of the lunge and light cavalry led by the leader performed their tasks step by step.
The charge of the cavalry and the interception from the east forced the smaller Gripen army to retreat to the north. The high ground in the north had been seized by the archers led by General Zhi. At this time, a north wind happened to blow. There was a gap of more than a thousand meters between the two sides.
In the crossbow shooting, no matter how tightly the crossbowmen of the Gripen troops tightened the strings on the capstans, they could rarely shoot more than a thousand meters against the wind. At the same time, the air cavalry of both sides also started fighting in the air.
Because the two countries are both large griffon countries, the gryphon aerial cavalry of both countries is not small. In this battle, thousands of gryphon cavalry from both sides participated in the bloody battle in the air. Most of the gryphons on both sides were covered in armor.
Armor, in the back-and-forth killings, many griffins died tragically, and the battle was very cruel.
After more than two hours of fighting, the Gripen army successfully retreated westward. This made Helen very unhappy. He originally wanted to kill this reckless enemy force, but he was unable to gain an advantage in the air and missed the opportunity to attack the enemy.
The chance of encirclement. But what really surprised him was the quality of the enemy's soldiers, which could be said to be very high.
Originally, this group of Gripen troops must be the enemy's elite troops, and the quality of the soldiers was undoubtedly high. But what surprised him was that all the enemy's soldiers were extremely well-equipped, far better than most of our own soldiers, and almost as good as his own.
The personal guards were all on the same page. Especially the enemy's aerial gryphon cavalry and the two thousand heavy infantry on the ground. Everyone was wearing brand new silver-spurred armor, which was very protective. Ordinary swords were very difficult to break. This was a problem in close hand-to-hand combat.
At this time, it caused great harm and psychological shadow to our own soldiers who were fighting bloody battles.
After all, it's okay for your own sword to cut on the enemy's armor, but someone else's sword can tear apart your own armor and break your own blade in just a few blows. This kind of psychological shock is fatal on the battlefield.
Helen was very alert to this. In his many years of experience fighting against the Gripen Nation, the Gripen Nation's army had never displayed such excellent ordnance. The standard ordnance of his own soldiers had always been more advantageous.
As for the powerful guards led by senior officers and generals on both sides, they did not achieve any results in this battle. The armies of both sides have undergone extremely professional training and are solid professional soldiers. Whether they are fighting behemoths on the ground or flying in the air, they
Everyone has their own way of avoiding and resisting.
This is different from the stragglers of small countries. Most small countries do not have the strength and conditions to receive professional training in this area. This includes unified action command capabilities, and the standard armor and shields they wear can sense each other and enhance their strength.
, the defensive magic you have learned can mobilize the abilities of these weapons in a unified way, so that you can face the dragon's breath without fear.
Similarly, the Frost Cavalry soldiers did not have much performance.
That night, the retreating Gripen troops came back again. The day after the night scouts reported the news, they found that there were more enemies camped 20 kilometers away, and they were thinking about the 'Cloud Sky Giant' that they were extremely worried about.
An 'ultimate weapon' appeared in the enemy's army~!
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(I don’t know what to write these days, so I’m a bit stuck on writing. I’ll give you a chapter first, and let me get a feel for it.)