Chapter 722 【0711】 Cross the river, cross the river
The last step of the three-step plan is still controversial, but the strategy of the first two steps has been completely confirmed.
Now that Pinara City is full of supplies and an army has gathered, it is indeed time to take the first step.
Therefore, after receiving the approval of His Majesty Jarvan IV, the Demacia army began to move out, officially leaving Pinara City and advancing towards Canal 102 in the north.
According to the plan made in advance, the main force of the Xiongdu Front was fully deployed. It did not stop until it reached the forest range on the south bank of the 102 Canal, and then set up camp on the spot. Waiting until the next morning, the army continued to move north while cutting down the forest to clear the way.
And in the evening of the next day, we finally arrived at the south bank of the canal.
During the entire march, the elite scouts of the Dauntless Vanguard conducted high-frequency reconnaissance throughout the entire process, and there was an endless stream of dragon and bird knights in the sky. Every quarter of an hour, three dragon and bird teams flew across the battlefield from south to north, trying their best to avoid encounters.
Enemy ambush.
Therefore, although Pingyuan Walker also had a small force remaining on the south bank, waiting for an opportunity to cause some trouble for the Xiongdu Front, they did not find any opportunity in the end. They could only take a boat to withdraw to the north bank of the canal before the opponent reached the river bank.
In this way, after the Xiongdu Front successfully arrived at the south bank of the canal, they first set up a camp, then began to cut down the forest, bundled a large amount of wood together, and made multiple pontoons. The next morning after they were ready,
After dawn, a large-scale swimming began.
According to the plan, the Xiongdu Front Army deployed more than twenty river-crossing positions, all of which were led by Fearless Vanguards or Sun Warriors and Bright Moon Warriors as river-crossing vanguards, fully deploying the formation.
Haike, who had clearly realized the opponent's intention to cross the river, tried his best to intercept the Xiongdu Front Army's crossing of the river.
Relying on their familiarity with the terrain and relying on small strongholds in the forest, the Plains Walkers harassed and intercepted the river-crossing army - trying to destroy the pontoon bridge when the enemy crossed the river, and preventing the enemy from deploying their formation after crossing the river.
The Plains Walkers, who had been tempered in the Battle of Nashrame, formed a local superior blocking force.
With the help of the imperial guards, more than a hundred of the five hundred pontoon bridges at twenty river-crossing positions were destroyed on the spot. At least a thousand elite soldiers of the Xiongdu Front fell into the rushing river. Although these people
Not everyone may drown, but the momentum of crossing the river is still delayed.
However, that's all what Plain Walker can do.
After all, the 102 Canal is not a natural river that is hundreds of yards wide. In addition, before crossing the river, all the actions of the Xiongdu Front Army were covered by the forest. Even Haike, who was familiar with the local terrain, could not have expected all the movements of the Xiongdu Front Army.
Among the twenty river crossing positions, only twelve were intercepted immediately. The remaining eight crossing points quickly passed through a large number of elite vanguard troops and established a firm foothold on the north bank in time.
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Even after the dragon bird knights on the Plain Walker side discovered the situation, Haike immediately mobilized soldiers from the nearest forest stronghold to stop them, but there were still seven river crossing points that finally stood firmly on both sides of the 102 Canal.
The Xiongdu Front troops followed more and more pontoons at these seven crossing points and arrived at the north bank of the canal one after another.
Subsequently, at other river crossing points where forced crossings failed, the Xiongdu Front also took the initiative to withdraw its troops, and all the troops moved to these seven safe river crossing points.
Under this situation, it was a foregone conclusion that the Xiongdu Front Army successfully crossed the river. The only thing Haike could do was to quickly gather his troops, gather all the Pingyuan Walkers under his command, and launch an assault on the Sixth Ferry.
In this wave of assaults, Pingyuan Walker once again demonstrated his superb footwork coordination. Under the cover of the Dharma Protector, Pingyuan Walker jumped through the forest, assembled and maneuvered at an astonishing speed, and carried out a large-scale massacre at the Sixth Ferry.
During the large-scale river crossing movement, with lightning speed, they once again concentrated their forces to attack the ferry.
How quickly does the raid come?
Let's put it this way, at the Fifth Ferry, which is closest to the Sixth Ferry, the Xiongdu Front discovered that the Plain Walkers had begun to retreat. Immediately, the Dragon Bird Knights took off and went to the nearby ferry to deliver a message, asking them to be more vigilant.
However, when the Dragon Bird Knight was preparing to land at the temporary river-crossing camp on the north bank of the Sixth Ferry, the Plains Walker's surprise attack had already arrived. Although it was more troublesome for the Dragon Bird Knight to take off in the forest and wasted some time, it could still be done without any problem.
To put it exaggeratedly, during this forest maneuver, the Plains Walker's legs were faster than the Dragon Bird Knight's wings.
Coincidentally, the person responsible for the defense of the temporary river crossing camp on the north bank of the Sixth Ferry was an old acquaintance of Plains Walker, the Bright Moon Warrior.
I don’t know if Heike specially selected his enemies, or if this was a pure coincidence. A few months later, the two teams that had fought to the death in the southern oasis of Naslam were on the north bank of Canal 102 in the northern border of Demacia.
Meet again.
Although the Plain Walkers did not take advantage in the Battle of Nashrame, but now living in a different place, after learning the enemy's number, all the soldiers thought was only revenge - they arrived quickly
The three companies in the combat position started the attack at the same time with tacit understanding, causing chaos in the camp immediately.
The Bright Moon warriors also reacted quickly. After hearing the noise, they almost reflexively took out their moonstone weapons, rushed out of the camp, and organized a counterattack in time.
There is no doubt about the combat effectiveness of the Moon Warriors, and the Moon Stone weapon is an integrated offense and defense. The environment in the forest is chaotic, and the formation is naturally divided. It seems that all conditions are developing in the direction that is favorable to the Moon Warriors.
However, the trend of this raid battle did not follow the theoretical direction - facing the raid of the Plain Walkers, the Moon Warriors made no further achievements after a wave of counter-raid attacks that seemed to be effective, and quickly fell behind.
Go downwind.
The main reason for this situation is that the Moon Warriors have no combat power, but lack of grassroots organization and command. Their counterattack was very effective at first, but after chasing a few hundred steps and widening the front line,
Instead, it gave the Pingyuan Walkers the opportunity to divide, surround, and unite to annihilate them.
Even though the moonstone weapon integrates offense and defense, this is not the desert area they are familiar with!
And, more importantly, the numerical advantage of the Ten Encirclement Plateau Walkers has completely erased the differences in individual combat power!
But even so, the situation of the Moon Warriors was still supportable, and the last straw that broke the camel's back was actually the collapse of the Xiongdu Front in the camp.
Moon warriors can withstand raids, launch counter-raids, and even maintain their frontline when being surrounded.
However, the Demacian soldiers in the camp, who had just crossed the river lightly and were reorganizing and resting, gradually became unable to withstand the tide of plainswalker attacks.
In this case, the Plain Walkers, led by Heike and the Guards Company, broke into the camp directly. Less than a quarter of an hour later, they changed the flags in the camp to the double-winged boots flag - as the battle flag was changed,
The Xiongdu Front army that was still trying to resist finally couldn't hold on any longer and began to flee toward the south bank in embarrassment along the direction of the pontoon given up by Pingyuan Walker.
And Haike did not focus on the number of enemy annihilations. Instead, after driving away the Xiongdu Front Army, he directly destroyed the pontoon bridge and in turn completely surrounded the Bright Moon Warriors!
It wasn't until the pontoon collapsed that the Moon Warriors who fought on their own finally realized that they had been betrayed.
Under normal circumstances, the Moon Warriors should surrender, or at least have their morale collapse.
However, it is unknown what kind of blood these people were beaten to, and even without the need for more organization and mobilization by their grassroots commanders, the Moon Warriors launched the final battle against the trapped beasts on the spot.
The Moon Warriors who were determined to die seemed to have come just to exchange their lives. The moonstone weapon that integrated both offense and defense had completely turned into an offensive weapon. Even if they were stabbed by swords and spears, or even if they were bombarded by magic, these Moon Warriors would still maintain their strength.
In an offensive stance, they brought nightmare casualties to the Plain Walkers.
Worried about the enemy's large forces gathering together to encircle them, Heike led his team to quickly withdraw from the battlefield after paying a heavy price to eliminate the Moon Warriors without even having time to collect more loot.
Facts have proved that his retreat was very timely - just a quarter of an hour after the battle ended, several scout troops arrived at the battle area under the guidance of the Dragon Bird Knight, and then support from other ferries quickly arrived, but Haike
If you hesitate a little longer, this raid will turn into a siege.
At this point, the battle to cross the 102 Canal can finally be declared over.
Throughout the entire battle, the Xiongdu Front suffered more than 3,000 casualties, including about 1,200 people who fell into the water. The river-crossing pioneers suffered nearly 1,000 casualties in the battles at various ferries. The Sixth Ferry was also attacked during the subsequent raid.
There were over a thousand casualties.
Among them, most of those who fell into the water were fearless vanguards, garrison soldiers, sun warriors and bright moon warriors. Even if the water flow in the 102 canal was fast, most of the people who were found downstream just drank some water, so the number of deaths should probably be between
Around 1,500, it won't take long for the injured to regain their fighting strength.
It seems that the loss is not big, and the first step of the tactical goal has been achieved, which should be considered a very profitable thing.
However, that's not how the accounts are calculated.
What was really fatal was that in the surprise battle at the Sixth Ferry, among the thousands of casualties suffered by the Xiongdu Front Army, 200 deaths were concentrated on the Bright Moon warriors.
You know, although the Moon Sect has put forward its old capital, the total number of Moon warriors is only 800 - and among these 800 people, nearly 200 have died in Varus's rampage.
Next, about a hundred people were seriously injured and died in the Battle of Nashrame.
In addition to the 200 people from this wave of raids... Although the establishment of the Bright Moon Warriors is still there, there are only about 200 people left.
If it hadn't been for the appearance of their gods in person, I'm afraid the Moon Sect would have withdrawn from the battle long ago - come on, the elites are almost dead!
It is no exaggeration to say that in this battle of crossing the river, the biggest loss of the Xiongdu Front was the two hundred Bright Moon Warriors. As long as such a large number of Bright Moon Warriors are equipped with magic support, even if the Ascended Ones come, there will be no
He cannot win over the cooperation of his Ascended Legion.
Such an elite force was completely wiped out because of a battle across the river. What is the difference between this and losing an ascended person because of crossing the river?
Of course, the Plains Walkers who completely annihilated this group of Bright Moon Warriors did not feel comfortable. Even in the battle of annihilation, the Plains Walkers' losses totaled more than 700 people due to the trapped beasts of the Bright Moon Warriors.
With an absolute military disadvantage, the Moon Warriors still played a one-for-three exchange ratio.
Coupled with the casualties on other battlefields, the cumulative casualties of the Plains Walkers in this river-crossing blockade came to around 1,500, even if they occupied a defensive advantageous location.
With nearly one-third of the casualties, even the most elite first group of Plains Walkers now had to return to the rear to rest and recuperate.
Without any hesitation, after evacuating the forest area on the north bank of the 102 Canal, all the soldiers of the Plain Walker Regiment boarded the carts that had been prepared and headed north, arriving outside the city of Lissos in the evening of the same day.
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Lux, who had already learned about the situation of the Plains Walkers through the messenger, directly signed the warrant, allowing the Plains Walkers to go directly to the safer Velos in the rear to rest.
However, the morale of the soldiers in the Plains Walker Group was pretty good. After receiving Lux's order, many soldiers were not relieved. Instead, they shouted that they could still fight. The Moon Warriors had not been cleaned up yet, until
After being stared at with death by his instructor, he shut his mouth.
Along with Pingyuan Walker's group, there were also the third-order Dharma Protectors.
Compared with the Pingyuan Walker group, the casualties of the Law Enforcers were not large, but in order to exterminate the Moon Warriors, these Law Enforcers now showed signs of overdraft of magic power - headaches, nausea, tinnitus, and heart palpitations.
Lux was too familiar with the overdraft of magic power, so she immediately rejected the third series of mages' proposal to cooperate with the second group of Plain Walkers to fight, and strictly ordered them to go to Velos.
A group of mages who have lost all mana, stop showing off here!
In addition to rest and recuperation, replenishing combat power is also crucial. With Lux issuing orders one after another, the clerks will be busy again in the next period of time.
The personnel of the Plain Walker Regiment will be mainly replenished by qualified retired warriors. After the third-sequence Archon Masters return to Blue, there will also be reserve Archon Cultivator interns to learn from their experience. Although Kalya does not know where to go now.
However, Lux always kept in mind his idea of integrated warfare, fighting one country with one corner, and Fosbairo must make good use of everyone's strength.
Finally, after settling the follow-up training issues for the Plains Walkers group and the third order of the Law Controllers, Lux's eyes fell back on the map again.
The blue front representing the Xiongdu Front has advanced for a long time. Behind Canal 102 and up to the city of Lissos, our side is no longer in danger.
And since there is no danger to defend...then it's time to take the initiative.