0722 Ground and air cooperation, footwork coordination
Is Urvo's judgment correct?
Correct, but not precise enough.
It's not that the Northern Walkers can't fight for a long time, but their own hard power on the frontal battlefield is not an advantage compared to other aspects.
You must know that due to the comprehensive development of Forsbarrow, the Northern Walkers are far beyond the other armies of Runeterra in terms of discipline, organization and mobility; under the guidance of Kalya's army building ideas
Next, the Northern Walkers are very good at cooperating with multiple arms, and their thinking is relatively unified. They have extremely high subjective initiative and can perform many tasks that ordinary armies cannot perform.
However, in terms of hard power in frontal confrontation, the Northern Walkers actually have no advantage - they are even at a disadvantage when facing the Fearless Vanguard.
This is something that can't be helped.
This situation occurs, on the one hand, because there is a natural gap in the quality of soldiers, and on the other hand, it has a huge relationship with the social customs structure.
Where did the soldiers of the Dauntless Vanguard come from?
They are either the children of nobles or the sons of good families supported by the savings of several generations of farmers' families. They have been riding bamboo horses and holding wooden sticks since they were three years old.
Starting from the age of five, the quietest game they play is probably the simplified version of King's Assertion.
Then, starting from the age of ten, these people will begin simple military training. Families with conditions will take the initiative to let these children act together to prepare for serving in the sword formation or shield formation in the future.
At the age of fifteen, they will pass Demacia's reserve review and formally enlist in the army after passing it.
Generally speaking, unless someone like Galen has an extremely amazing family background, most soldiers join the Dauntless Vanguard between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. They usually serve in the Dauntless Vanguard for about ten years.
, unless you become an officer, you usually retire at the age of forty.
In other words, the warriors of the Fearless Pioneers are all people with about twenty years of military training experience. Some of them are talented, some have family backgrounds, and have been trained as warriors since they were young. They are military aristocrats in the true sense.
Reserve!
The cost of this kind of training is quite astonishing, but it is precisely because of this crazy training and selection system that it has created the fearless pioneers' reputation and created many people who can only be described as incredible in terms of numbers alone.
Achievements.
How can two or three shield formations defend a pass, forcing an entire Noxian battle group to move forward? How can a small group enter the Freljord and still escape unscathed? These achievements look like bragging.
Behind it is the direct output of the amazing investment under the policy of elite soldiers and the military aristocracy.
To put it bluntly, the cost of training five Dauntless Vanguard shield formations (generally around forty or fifty people) is actually not much different from that of a small third-line battle group in Noxus (usually around a thousand people).
The essence of Demacia's ability to insist on such a crazy training system is that Demacia itself is a military aristocratic country. Becoming a soldier and making military exploits is the most formal promotion channel in this country, and it is also the most popular in the entire Demacia.
direction.
In Demacia, any family with some savings plans to save some money, buy armor and war horses, wait for a reliable child, and then train him to join the army, strive to make meritorious deeds, and become a noble - even if he does not become a noble.
, you can also use this to marry a noble to achieve a class jump.
Under the influence of such a system, Demacia is naturally full of martial virtue.
So, what about the North?
Although Fosbello is small, it has very rich promotion channels. Law Enforcer, Clerk and Northern Walker are all reliable and good places to go, but they are definitely not the same thing as Dauntless Vanguard.
In addition, the source of troops in the north is also very different from the fearless vanguards who select the best from the best. In Forsbarrow, there are now very few children who receive military training starting from the age of five or six. Most of the children have to go to school to study.
Of cultural classes.
Although discipline can be cultivated and ideological unity can be maintained in school, as far as fighting itself is concerned, there is definitely a difference between those who go to school and those who have practiced fighting since childhood.
Even three years ago, Forsbarrow began to implement a class system for students when they were fifteen years old to differentiate the students' directions. However, in terms of training in combat skills, those who later join the army will definitely not be able to compete with the soldiers of the fearless vanguard.
Compare.
Since most of the soldiers in the Northern Walkers have been going to school since they were young, they have excellent discipline; the Northern Territory has comprehensive industries, so they have sufficient supplies and are highly mobile; the Northern Territory has various types of troops, and their collaborative capabilities are relatively strong.
The Xiongdu Front Army, represented by the Fearless Pioneers, has been exercising and training combat skills since childhood, so they often have better physical fitness, stronger combat effectiveness and better endurance in frontal battles.
Different social promotion paths, different customs, and different soldier training programs have resulted in huge differences between the Northern Walkers and the Xiongdu Front Army. In the eyes of the Twilight Stars who do not understand human society, this difference is abstracted into the training time of soldiers, and
In Lux's eyes, it has become the key to leveraging one's strengths and avoiding weaknesses.
From the beginning, Lux was very clear about her own strengths and weaknesses, so she always insisted on fighting on the move, fighting with air force cover and water transport support, fighting in complex and favorable terrain, and fighting on the defensive.
And fight after being fully prepared.
Therefore, the places where the Northern Walkers and the Xiongdu Front Army engaged were either in the sky, on the water, on the shore, or in the mountains. Only the initial exploratory attacks by the vanguard armies of both sides took place in a relatively wide area. However,
For the first time, the Northern Walkers showed footwork coordination and caught the Xiongdu Front's vanguard by surprise.
The ground troops of the Xiongdu Front are at least 70 to 80 level in frontal battles. Among them, the Dreadnought Vanguard is even more elite. If you put an Ascensioner in there, you can use it as an Ascension Legion.
But in other aspects, they only have good fighting spirit and grassroots organization level. I don’t know what the service coordination is. The naval force is better than nothing, and the air force has almost been completely wiped out.
On the other hand, the Northern Walkers, although the level of frontal combat is not that interesting, they have higher levels in more aspects, especially footwork coordination, ground-air cooperation, mobile marching, etc. They have a completely crushing advantage. This
At that time, Lux was really stupid to take the initiative to start a battle with the Xiongdu Front Army!
Therefore, Urvo's judgment was correct. Under the continuous impact, the plateau walkers who had not eaten breakfast could not hold on for two or three hours.
But Ulvo's judgment was not accurate because the Plateau Walkers didn't need to persist for that long.
Less than a quarter of an hour after the outflanking of the Fearless Vanguard began, the Northern Air Force arrived.
Since the commanders of each defense unit immediately reported the situation in their own defense areas, Lux immediately recognized the focus of Xiongdu Front's attack, so the Northern Air Force was the first to set off to provide support.
The organized bombing formation began to dive and drop bombs on the head of the fearless vanguard.
Since the members of the Dauntless Vanguard are all wearing heavy armor, the Hex Crystal is not sufficiently lethal to them. The bombing formation mainly focuses on interference. Hex Crystals and glass balls are mixed to delay the enemy's actions.
The interference was successful.
Although the fearless pioneers are truly fearless warriors, this does not mean that they should continue to move forward stupidly when faced with bombings, not knowing how to dodge when they see bright balls falling from the sky.
Even if many of these gadgets did not explode, it would be impossible for the Dauntless Vanguard to continue its strong attack on the third trench. The offensive became weaker at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Almost at the same time, the second wave of support from the defenders quickly arrived.
Taking advantage of the formation of the Dauntless Vanguard being dispersed due to the bombing and the offensive weakening, the Archon was dispatched in mixed formation on the battlefield.
More than a hundred mages arrived at the front line of the battle from the rear, and began to use their respective expertise to assist the plateau walkers in an orderly manner, adding BUFF to friendly forces, adding DEBUFF to the enemy, and reinforcing their own fortifications.
As a result, the fearless vanguard soldiers who had raised their shields in preparation for the arcane missiles after seeing the robed spellcaster appeared were dumbfounded to find that the development of the matter was completely beyond their expectations.
The originally muddy third trench quickly became slippery, and the weak parapet was quickly solidified like a city wall. The enemy's strength became stronger, and the speed of shooting arrows also increased, and there was a puff of wind blowing towards us from the flat ground.
The wind of the position.
The gap in the parapet that had been knocked down with great difficulty was repaired, and the previously weak defense areas were replenished. The enemy's morale, which had been reduced due to being suppressed and beaten, became high again due to the arrival of reinforcements.
The expected fireballs and arcane missiles did not come, and the Archon's battlefield hybrid sequence did not have the ability to ignore the defense of rune steel armor, so their main job was to transform the environment, strengthen friendly forces, and weaken the enemy.
With the help of the Law Enforcers, when the bombing formation returned and the Fearless Vanguard rushed towards the third trench again, they were shocked to find that the enemy seemed to be much stronger, while they themselves were gradually restrained and unable to fight no matter how hard they tried.
strength.
Obviously, we were still suppressing these northern rebels before.
But why is it that only the Moon Warriors seem to have an advantage now?
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Ulvo, who has been paying attention to the situation on the front line, now also has a headache.
The development of the war situation went as he expected at first, with both sides locked in a stalemate with their own advantageous exchange ratio. However, suddenly a burst of bombing came and a group of mages appeared, and his situation suddenly became not so good.
In this case, a difficult choice was placed in front of Ulvo.
Do you want to continue?
If we continue, the elite of the Fearless Vanguard and the elite of the enemy will be designated as Plateau Walkers.
Judging from the numbers of both sides, if this change continues, even if one breaks through the plateau walker's frontal defense and creates a protruding area, it may not be easy to expand the results in the future, and may even be untenable.
After licking his lips, Ulvo was still unable to give the order for the entire army to press forward. He put down the Hex telescope and finally decided to try for two more rounds to see how long these mages' tricks could last and see what the enemy's
What's the quality like?
At present, the casualties of Fearless Vanguard are still within an acceptable range, and the organization is not in any disarray. Even if this attack fails to work, at least some intelligence must be produced!
However, just when Ulvo was about to take another look, the mobile troops of the Northern Army Corps officially arrived behind the Plateau Walkers.
The Plains Walkers group, which had previously achieved a lot of results in the battle across the 102 Canal and retreated along the Grand Canal to Velos to recuperate, has basically recovered after half a month of training.
Just the day before yesterday, this elite group of outstanding northerners had arrived at the southern camp of Lithos City by boat and joined the battle sequence as a reserve team.
Returning with them was the third order of the Dharma Protectors, the Son of the Wind.
During the battle across the 102 Canal, the Plains Walker Regiment suffered nearly one-third of its casualties. Lux's original plan was to use veterans who had retired and re-enlisted to replenish the casualties, but the Xiongdu Front Army was too stubborn.
, Lux simply maintained the vacancy status and brought them over to use as a reserve team.
The seats are still available, but they are temporarily vacant.
Anyway, the reserve team has no positional defense mission. What Lux is interested in is the team's ability and experience in frontal combat!
And now, the mission of the Plain Walker Group has come.
The Plateau Walkers and the Dauntless Vanguard are fighting hard to separate each other, and even the Dreadnought Vanguard, who are supported by the mixed sequence of the Law Enforcers on the battlefield, are still frustrated. In this case, isn't it the time for the Plains Walkers and the third sequence to take action?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Having arrived at the battlefield, Heike had no time to say hello to Mi Xin. While sending out messengers to communicate, the entire team rushed out from the flank of the Plateau Walker Regiment's position.
After a few miles to the south, the Plains Walkers group was ready for the dandelion tactic, and the mages in the third sequence began to cooperatively cast spells.
The next moment, amidst the low sound of magic chanting, a strong wind gradually rose.
The back sails were opened, and the large-scale feather falling technique was released. As the soldiers in the front row leaped, like dandelion seeds, leaping down from the plateau, riding the mighty southeast wind,
Floating towards the fearless vanguard position that was fighting with a group of plateau walkers.
The intertwined terrain of plateaus and canyons set up a perfect stage for Dandelion tactics. The place where the Plains Walkers jumped down in a group was a thousand-foot cliff. Even if Ulvo liked to encircle the Northern Walkers in advance,
He knew the habits of roundabout and interspersed battles, and had deployed enough sentries and reserves on the flanks, but he never expected that the enemy would appear from his flanks and rear.
When the little dandelions opened their red and blue back sails, half jumping and half floating in the canyon, they bypassed the seemingly impassable terrain and arrived at the fearless vanguard attack position.
When he turned to the side, Ulvo's brain even went blank for a moment.
He didn't panic.
But precisely because he didn't panic, he knew what it meant!
During the siege, after being surrounded by no one, you are about to get your butt covered. If you are not careful at this time, it will be a rout!
At this moment, he no longer had the intention to think about why the enemy appeared on the side and behind. Now he could only hope that the enemy in the front would not take the initiative to attack, and at the same time mobilize all the forces at hand, including his own bodyguards, to attack.
We must not let the front and rear flanking attack take shape completely, otherwise it will be over!
However, now that the matter has come to this, how could the Northern Walkers give Ulvo this opportunity?
Almost at the same time that Ulvo issued the order, the Northern Air Force was dispatched again.
This time, the bombing formation and the flying squadron set off together. They crossed the trench area and went straight to the protrusion of the Plainswalker Corps. They worked hard to assemble reserves at Ulvo and went to block the Plains Walkers group from behind, preparing for the retreat from the frontal battlefield.
While buying time, multiple waves of bombings were launched continuously.
Want to gather troops to resist on two fronts?
dream!
There is a northern air force that has complete control of the air. Why do you have to gather?
Fearless Pioneer, I am determined to eat today!
The infantry relied on fortifications to hold up the front, the air force harassed and delayed actions in the air, and the mages provided spell support and temporary maneuvers. Under the trinity's joint offensive, Ulvo's forehead was covered with sweat and his cheeks turned red.
Listening to the cries of dragons and birds that sounded like a cry for life, at this moment, the acting commander-in-chief of the Fearless Vanguard felt a tightness in his chest and could hardly breathe smoothly.