Through the fragmentary intelligence collected one after another, the staff quickly analyzed what exactly happened this time: after Ryan and the others killed many Dorasks before going south, Khal Drogo, the most powerful khalasar, discovered
After all, looting was the main source of income for the Dorasques, and they would never allow the goatmen who they had plundered to have the power to resist. So he decided to use a decisive battle to completely defeat the Lazarin people.
Resist.
Khal Drogo used the excuse of getting married to gather the Khals of various khalasar. After marrying his wife, he did not hold the wedding immediately as customary. Instead, he took his wife who had not completed the wedding and the army and tried to raid Raza directly. He
At the gate of Pentos City, he declared that he would completely conquer the Lazarin people, and celebrated his wedding with countless wealth and slaves.
Obviously, he was the one who spread the previous rumors about weddings. He hoped that the Lazarin people would relax their vigilance because of this. Fortunately, Ryan was not fooled by this.
The Doraski cavalry that came and went like the wind had always been a nightmare for the Lazarin people, but after defeating a series of elite troops from slave city-states, the Lazarin people also built up their confidence. Everyone also knew clearly that the relationship with Dora
The war between the Sksk people is bound to break out, we just don’t know when.
After Ryan announced the news that the decisive battle would break out within a week, no soldier felt afraid. Many soldiers even felt relieved. After all, they had been preparing for this war for a long time.
The war machine started running. Lane and his staff began to rehearse the war on the sand table. The soldiers further strengthened the temporary civil fortifications outside the core fortifications, deployed heavy weapons and set up various obstacles.
Finally, with the smoke billowing in the distance, the Dorasques came. This unprecedentedly large army has more than 90,000 people. They are the best cavalry on this land. The riding skills of these cavalry are higher than any knights. Light cavalry
They are their main force. The warriors use scimitars called "arakhs", longbows and whips. However, out of tradition, they do not wear armor, only a painted leather vest.
They plundered the surrounding peoples wantonly, and even city-states with elite troops and complete city fortifications had to pay tribute every year to avoid their attacks.
Their opponent, Lazarin's army, only had more than 16,000 people. With Iron Gate Fort, a modern reinforced concrete fortress, as its core, it was surrounded by World War I-style defensive positions several kilometers deep, with trenches, barbed wire, and potato mines densely scattered throughout.
More than 400 steam machine guns and more than 150 small and medium-caliber steam cannons were arranged in the trenches and fortresses at the front of the position according to scientific calculations.
At the same time, the fortress also received fire support from more than a dozen steam gunboats in the deep water area near the river behind it, and more than 80 large-caliber steam train cannons on a railway a few kilometers away on the south bank of the river, together with a steam robot mobile unit.
"Do these cowardly goatmen think they can stop our progress with low fortresses and shallow moats? Go ahead, kill them and plunder them."
After a simple speech, Drogo commanded the armies of various small tribes to start tentative attacks from all directions, while he led his troops to prepare for a concentrated assault after others found the defensive weaknesses.
"From now on, it is either death or victory. Think of the humiliation we have suffered in the past few hundred years. All those who backslid will be shot directly as traitors, and there will be no mercy for cowards. Of course I will stand on the front line. If I
If you take a step back, you can kill me directly." In the trenches of Lazarin's army, priests with purple roses painted on their helmets waved their sabers and gave pre-battle speeches.
Soon, the probing cavalry were entangled in the barbed wire, and their bows and arrows could hardly cause damage to the troops in the fortifications. The Lazarin army, which had hidden most of its firepower, began to use the wind spear in its hand to shoot those who lost
The speed of the cavalry showed an anxious state on the battlefield.
However, because Lazarin's army did not explode all the firepower. Nearly an hour after the battle began, the cavalry finally cleared many roads leading to the main position of the fortress after losing more than 5,000 people. At this time, Lazarin
The total casualties of Lin's army did not exceed a hundred people, but the Dothraki on the opposite side did not know this. They only felt that the door to victory was already open to them. As long as the large troops rushed to the fortifications, these goatmen would be like before.
Let them slaughter.
With the sound of several low horns, the 40,000 roaring warriors of the Dorask army finally started to move. After joining other cavalry wandering around, they began to divide into small groups to form a continuous impact formation like iron.
The Gateburg charges.
But they didn't know that the cleared roads were actually fire traps that had been calculated long ago. After most of the cavalry entered these fire trap areas, Lane gave the order to use full firepower.
On the train gun on the railway track on the south bank of the river, a brown-skinned artillery sergeant was praying silently.
"May the Supreme Crystal protect us." After reciting the prayer, he looked at the family photo posted next to the gun emplacement. In addition to him, there was a woman and two children on it. They were former slaves of Yunkai, but unfortunately
They belonged to different families from the slave owners. After Lion's army captured Yunkai City, they were finally reunited after gaining freedom.
Because he risked his life to help guide the defeated troops to the hiding place when Lazarin's army entered the city, he received many rewards after the war: his wife got a job in a textile factory that everyone envied, and the two of them got a job in a textile factory that everyone envied.
A child was also sent to school. Out of gratitude, he decided to join the army to defend the fruits of victory, because he could read and do arithmetic. So after the knowledge given by the Supreme Crystal Temple (that is, the memory instillation under the cloak of myth)
, because it is easier for people who have mastered basic knowledge to instill memory, so these people will have priority) and be assigned to become the commander of an artillery piece.
Just as he was recalling the past, a sharp and short whistle sounded, and a red light suddenly lit up in the carriage.
"Fire at area A3." Under his command, the gunner suddenly turned the steam valve, and the 155mm caliber steam cannon on the carriage immediately shot out a thick white mist, and a black shadow was projected.
To the distance, leaving a faint transparent trail in the sky.
In an instant, the Dothraki cavalry who gathered together to charge were splashed with waves of soil mixed with broken limbs and broken arms. Many bloody gaps were exposed in the neat charging formation.
Although the extremely brave Dothraki cavalry still charged forward despite the shelling, the explosion still affected the horses under them. The horses, which had never experienced anything like this, jumped restlessly, making the charging front no longer as neat as before.
At this time, another short whistle sounded on the train. The artilleryman wearing thick lint and cotton mixed gloves quickly opened the breech block. The operator on the other side of the artillery cooperated with a probe rod soaked in water to clean the barrel and cool it down. Then it was loaded.
He loaded a new cannon shell into the barrel and closed the breech. Thanks to the memory instillation device, it was possible to train so many closely coordinated artillerymen in just half a year.
After seeing from the nearby instrument that the steam pressure in the barrel reached the predetermined value, the artillery roared again.