I Will Be The Crowned King

Although Fabian still tried his best to object, or expressed his dissatisfaction with the deputy commander on behalf of the attitude of the vast majority of the officers of the Storm Division, and kept suggesting that the so-called "Visenia ancestral grave" was probably just a non-existent, and was taken by Ruko Visser. Nia used the bait to fool people.

But this time Anson was uncharacteristically, completely ignoring the opinions and thoughts of his subordinates, and almost single-mindedly demanded to launch an attack on the Iron Bell Fort - and it was not a test, not a gradual encroachment, but a full-scale attack.

In one day, conquer the Iron Bell Fort!

Under this **** slogan, the entire Storm Division plus Aiden and Thun's minions were mobilized to prepare for the next day's battle.

So at 6:00 am on July 11, the 100th year of the saint's calendar, a thunderous roar sounded on time at the artillery position of the Storm Division.

With the screams of tearing the air, the solid bullets scorched by the cannon flames smashed heavily on the walls and towers of the Iron Bell Castle. The cracked smoke instantly enveloped the entire wall, and countless rubble mixed with the soldiers' misery. Cries of massive collapse.

When the smoke and dust dissipated a little, the indestructible city wall had obvious cracks and damage, and the four towers on the front were crumbling like candles in the wind.

As a representative of the old castle, the fragility of the Iron Bell Castle is exposed in front of the new artillery - the straight-up and straight-down design, the simple masonry structure, and the weakened thickness of the rammed earth in order to increase the usable area of ​​the castle, all make the city wall unable to resist Direct bombardment.

Small-caliber field guns may still be able to fight, but if you replace them with 12-pounder cannons or large-caliber mortars specially prepared for siege...under continuous repeated bombardment, they will collapse at a speed visible to the naked eye.

With the choking gunpowder smoke and bursting at any time, the Mist defenders on the city wall once again showed their decisive style; the entire line withdrew from the city wall, allowing the artillery positions of the Storm Division to bombard indiscriminately, and did not organize any counterattacks at all.

This is actually a helpless move - the defenders of Iron Bell Castle don't have many artillery pieces, and the very limited few are either too small and meaningless, or too heavy and recoil too violent to be placed on the city wall at all.

As for going out of town to fight back? The battle a day ago had already proved by the **** facts that in the face of a complete siege position and an absolute military disadvantage, taking the initiative to attack is like courting death.

Therefore, the best way seems to be to hope that the Clovis people are just deterrence as before, and still have no intention of launching a general attack on Iron Bell Fort.

But this time they guessed wrong.

With a series of deafening explosions, several crumbling towers collapsed amid the cheers in the siege position, smashing several gaps in the already bullet-riddled city wall.

The mournful bugle sounded over the suburbs at the same time, and thousands of coalition soldiers quickly assembled in the forward positions, forming a dense offensive column, and slowly advancing towards the city wall in turn.

Under the arrangement of a deputy commander and chief of staff "with ulterior motives", the supporters of Ruco Visania, who were the most poorly equipped and least disciplined, were arranged in the first row of the offensive sequence; and the morale was the highest. , followed by the Aiden Legion, which is the largest and most easily out of control.

The purpose is very simple and very sinister, that is, to use these Mist as meat shields to attract firepower to cover the attack of the coalition soldiers.

It doesn't matter if their morale collapses or goes against the water, the Aiden, who are extremely good at mad dog bayonet charges, will teach them that dying at the hands of the enemy is ten thousand times better than being "trampled by war" by a group of roaring friendly forces.

The mixed line of Storm Division and Thun was placed in the third row as the main force; Thun people who had received the same military training could better adapt to Clovis-style tactics; although the Battle of Green Valley proved that The advantage of the Clovis line in street battles is greatly reduced, and it is especially not suitable for raids and encounters, but it is still ok in quickly controlling positions and suppressing firepower.

Of course, Anson would not specifically tell Thun and Leon Francois that the reason why they were not good at it was because the "elite storm division" was also a motley crew; the rigid and rigid tactical code could still be played well. , when it comes to complex and changeable battles that require flexible response, the gap between it and the real standing army is obvious.

The most elite grenadier regiments, skirmishers, and coalition cavalry, were placed in the third echelon as a reserve force, and they were raided by the enemy and shouldered the final general offensive task.

The most elite troops are responsible for the simplest battles and take the greatest military exploits. This "unspoken rule" can be regarded as one of the few "common points" among the armies of all countries in this era - even Carl Bain, who once hated it. , in the combat arrangement is also unavoidable.

As one of the artillery pieces started to stop firing due to overheating of the barrels, the Mist soldiers who were arranged in the front row as cannon fodder did not wait for the smoke and flames of the explosion to dissipate, and launched an impatient attack.

There was no slogan, no direct fire, the more than a thousand Mists approached the 300-meter position of the city wall, as if they were collectively electrocuted, they let out a hoarse roar from their throats, and came up with a bayonet charge advancing across the board!

The Mist soldiers with their bayonets held out their salvos against the defenders' platoons of guns. After paying the price of hundreds of corpses, they stepped on the gaps smashed by the cannonballs and rushed through the city wall, fighting against the defenders. .

Although the defenders in the city have been completely reduced to a state of passive defense, in order to deal with the general attack that the coalition forces may launch at any time, they have made a lot of arrangements; not only built barricades and various fortifications behind the city walls, but even in the direct access Artillery is arranged in the center of the road of the fort, and full preparations for street fighting have been made.

But now at least more than half of these arrangements have lost their meaning-they never imagined that the coalition had prepared curved guns such as mortars in addition to direct-fire cannons, turning all the fortifications behind the city walls and the collapsed towers into ruins.

Even the defenders in the fortifications were all buried alive below!

When the chaotic Mist army rushed into the city wall, what greeted them was not the defenders armed to the teeth and hiding behind various traps and complicated fortifications, but a mess of scattered sand that had not fully recovered from the shelling.

So the Mist, who suffered heavy casualties, directly smashed the line that the defenders had organized in a hurry, and strangled together with their compatriots.

Under wave after wave of offensives, the defenders, who had been chaotic under the coverage of artillery fire, were quickly opened up one after another; although the casualties did not increase, the command system was on the verge of collapse, and the soldiers fighting for each other had returned. It is also impossible to organize an effective defense force.

At the same time, the suicide charge of the Mist army not only caused a great shock to the enemy, but also completely disrupted the offensive rhythm of the coalition forces.

First, a small number of Aiden soldiers were "wrapped" by the charging Mists and launched an attack. Soon the remaining Aiden were shocked to find that they had completely disconnected from the vanguard, and that the "friendly forces" were still very strong. The situation was successfully opened.

The Aiden people couldn't bear it any longer, and shouted "For Aiden!" "Long Live the Allied Forces!" "Long Live Hantu!" .

The Mist soldiers who had received reinforcements had high morale on the spot and continued to attack the city under the cover of the Aiden people behind them—or, in other words, coerced by them. Escape for their own running too slow.

So less than 30 minutes after the battle officially started, and before even the storm division line corps that was in the formation had entered the battle, the defenders of Iron Bell Fort under the city wall had already declared a rout, and the peripheral defense had completely collapsed.

Thousands of coalition soldiers began to follow the footsteps of the defeated soldiers, pouring into the castle like a torrent; the two sides really began to fight around the streets and buildings in the bloodiest street battles.

The beacon smoke, which marked the imminent end of the Hantu War, kicked off over the Iron Bell Fort.

"I originally thought that even if the Mist people can't do anything, at least they can hold on to the city for a while."

In the trenches of the forward position, Leno Emmanuel, holding a monocular, watched the battle of the city wall filled with gunpowder, and his expression couldn't help showing a trace of contempt:

"Even the dignified castle can't last more than a day in front of the besieging army... The cowardly Mist people really don't deserve to have such a vast territory."

"Not worthy? That seems too much to say."

A voice full of sunshine rang in his ears, and Leno, who had a sneer at the corner of his mouth in the last second, was instantly shocked, with an unsightly expression, as if he was being stared at by some kind of terrifying existence, and twisted his neck stiffly. He looked at the figure walking in behind him.

I saw Leon, who was covered in dust, was carrying a **** and walked in front of Reno with a smile that seemed to exude radiance all over his body. He patted his excessively stiff shoulders with a sound of "Crack!"

"It's not because the Mists are really too weak, but in the face of the modernized Clovis army, in the face of Ansen Bach's strategic plan that may completely block all their counterattacks, no amount of bravery is enough. There is no way to close the gap between the two sides.”

"The same situation is replaced by Thun, Aiden or even the Elf. The result is the same, and there won't be any difference."

"Modernization? Strategy?"

Although he was horrified when he saw Leon now, Reno couldn't help but want to retort: ​​"I'm sorry, but I don't see any modernization or strategy, some are just an army that is several times the defender, and a few more. It's just a cannon - that counts as strategy and modernization?"

"Exactly!"

Leon, who was refuted, was not only not angry, but became excited because Lenore asked what he had just learned recently:

"There seems to be no connection between the two, but in fact it is a causal relationship - it is precisely because Clovis's army is more advanced and excellent that they can simultaneously mobilize more troops than the enemy, larger artillery and sufficient Artillery shells are put into the battlefield in an orderly manner; because this requires not only strong mobilization capabilities, but also abundant and perfect logistics to ensure this."

"Because of this, the Clovis and the Imperials dared to use artillery recklessly on the battlefield to carry out fierce artillery bombardment for more than ten minutes or even more than an hour; while we Hantu people often finish several rounds of salvos in a battle. , don't dare to fire at will - this is the gap!"

"Anson once told me that steel, gunpowder and faith are the keys to sustaining the Clovis people's invincibility on the battlefield."

Leon said excitedly.

"Steel, gunpowder and faith? I think it's cannon, gold and greed..." Reno couldn't help muttering a few words:

"What about strategy, why do you say that the Mist's fiasco was not because of cowardice, but because it was suppressed strategically?"

"This, isn't this more obvious?" Leon laughed.

Lenore was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.

He was talking about himself!

More precisely, Aiden and Thune.

Facing the vast land that was ignited by the battle of Eaglehorn City, Anson Bach deliberately put the scattered Mist at the end, in order to completely isolate her, and then mobilize the power of all the vast soil to defeat this vast territory. But not a strong country.

From the moment Thun joined, Carindia surrendered, and Aiden conceded defeat, the fall of Iron Bell Castle was already a given.

And this is Anson Bach's strategy.

"Then what's next." Leon looked at Leon, whose eyes seemed to be shining with worship, and couldn't help but ask:

"As far as I know, Anson Bach's plan was to surround himself without fighting, and let the Iron Bell fortress surrender; why did he suddenly decide to attack~www.wuxiaspot.com~ What direction will the situation develop next?"

"I really don't know much about this—perhaps for some last resort, or for more noble reasons?"

Leon shook his head and guessed with a somewhat inexplicable expression: "The situation... Victory is already in our pocket. Next, Hantu will win peace again, unify and form an alliance with Clovis?"

Lenore didn't say anything, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

No, something isn't quite right.

In any case, Mist and Fort Iron Bell were already in Anson Bach's pockets. Launching a storm for a loot that could be obtained sooner or later was completely against the interests of the deputy commander, and it was not in the interests of the deputy commander. Style doesn't match.

At that time, he had even guessed that his father would tear up the agreement and make a surprise attack, but he still waited until the last moment to take action, and even risked being completely wiped out... It was because the Battle of Green Valley was very important in every sense. Not worth the fight.

Why would he be uncharacteristically this time, and would rather pay some price to win the Iron Bell Fort as soon as possible?

Reno Emmanuel felt that he smelled some kind of conspiracy, and he had a faint feeling that Anson Bach might have some unknown secret that forced him to do so.

In the babble of little Leon, the silent Leon narrowed his eyes.

At this moment, the bugle sounded again on the battlefield, and the line of Thun and the Storm Division began to approach the city wall. After a few minutes of silence, the artillery positions began to get busy again.

On the 11th day of the 100th year of the saint's calendar, at 7:15 a.m., one hour and fifteen minutes after the siege, the general attack on the Iron Bell was about to begin.

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