Realm of Power

434 Bloody Moon (1)

The storm was like a wild horse that ran away from the Dugan Grassland on the northeastern edge. Like a ruthless robber, it swept through the entire wealthy and densely populated central Turga Grassland.

Black clouds rolled in overwhelmingly, bringing with them waterfall-like rain, turning the ground covered with dense grass into a muddy mess that was difficult to walk on.

Muffled thunder roared in the clouds above our heads, and chaotic silver lightning continued to pierce the sky above our heads, illuminating the neat Ruidian army formation in front of the wall of Shamandu City.

The shining electric light illuminated the faces of the Ruidian soldiers. The shields raised to their chests only revealed a pair of blood-red eyes. They looked at the cold light of bows and arrows on the top of the city, which revealed the gaze of beasts.

The eight-day brutal siege cost the Ruidian army 4,000 casualties and caused most of the city wall of Shamandu to collapse.

However, the 1,000 Kugit remnant troops inside the inner city are still clinging to the last broken city wall. For this 18th squadron of the Kugit Royal Court, which is holding on to death,

Even the Ruidian army in charge of the attack was filled with surprise.

Everyone on the mainland knows that defending the city is not the strong point of the Kugits, but this 5,000-strong lightly-armed force used their own bows, arrows and scimitars to defeat the 20,000-strong main force outside.

He used his incompetence in wall warfare and his determination to die to drag the 30,000 Ruidian elite cavalry trying to pursue behind the dilapidated Shamandu City.

The mutilated corpses of the two armies were stacked on top of each other at the battlements of the city wall. They were washed slightly white in the heavy rain. The blood-stained battlements looked particularly sad in the rain.

The scattered stones of the city wall are covered with dents caused by trebuchet bombs. In the white raindrops, the tenacious figures of Kujit shooters appear and disappear from time to time at the collapsed battlements.

"Misselin, the combat effectiveness of your Eastern Army is really becoming more and more disappointing." Nerrad, the leader of the 12th Knights of Ruidian, looked arrogantly with his hands behind his back, with a hint of contempt in his eyes.

In front of Nerrad was General Ruidian with bloodstains on his body. In response to Nerrad's scolding, he stood upright.

Large raindrops flowed down the lines of the broken mail on his body, forming a brown mud inside the tent.

"What a surprise?" Nerrad turned around, stared at Michelin in front of him with sharp eyes, and said in a sarcastic tone.

"If the marshal hadn't personally sent me to supervise the battle, I wouldn't have known that the Lion Wing Banner Regiment, known as the Dragon Spear of Ruidian, had been delayed in front of this shabby little town for four days.

This is what the Ored Flag Regiment paid for with 3,000 lives in a bloody battle with Kujit's reinforcements in Drifaban, but you just wasted it in the heavy rain.

If those warriors of the kingdom who died in Drifa Urban knew that their blood was so worthless, they would get up from their graves angrily."

"My lord is teaching me that my subordinates may be too incompetent." Michelin lowered his head. Although Michelin acknowledged Nerrad's ridicule, there was a complex look in his eyes.

Everyone knows what happened this time. His Lion Wing Flag Regiment is just a scapegoat in name only.

In order to save himself from the unfavorable situation of being blocked in Aichemore,

Marshal Berlant of the Kingdom issued an emergency transfer order to the Ruidian Eastern Army stationed on the border of the eastern grassland.

Two elite cavalry flag regiments of the Eastern Army broke into the eastern grasslands overnight.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Kugits to mass gather in Turga and significantly shrink the defense line,

Along the relatively secretive Ahmanson Corridor on the edge of the grassland, I ran for three consecutive days across the entire eastern grassland, and then suddenly appeared on the outskirts of Shamandu City, the first fortress outside Turga.

Under the bright moonlight, a long black line appeared at the end of the earth,

The rumble of the horses' hooves tore apart the tranquility of the prairie. The 30,000 Ruidian light cavalry, which struck like a hurricane, completely penetrated the scattered defense line of the Kugits outside the city of Shamandu in an instant.

No one would have thought why the Ruidian cavalry appeared here. The cavalry's swift attack stunned the unprepared Kugits.

The camp was trampled to pieces by the Ruidian cavalry, and the tribesmen flowed into rivers of blood under the sword light of the Ruidian people. Two tribes with tens of thousands of people were massacred in one night and became extinct.

Faced with the sudden arrival of the Ruidian Cavalry Corps, their scattered organizational habits made the Kugit army only focus on the direction of Mount Rudato, and they only began to mobilize the next day.

The Kujit people, who claim to be the masters of the prairie, encountered an opponent that they also found difficult to deal with this time.

These two cavalrymen who came on the moon seemed to be very familiar with the tactics of the Kugits.

Facing the Kugit army that was beginning to react, the two Ruidian cavalry were like two sharp and entangled scissors, launching devastating blows to the searching Kugit army from time to time.

Often one group is in front to attract the enemies who are constantly chasing and gathering, while the other group has already ambushed in the front. This simple and effective tactic of luring the enemy is fatal to the Kugits' habit of scattered searches and concentrated attacks.

It's been like this several times,

When the Kujit army thought it had caught these abominable attackers, it would suddenly find an extremely sharp light cavalry appearing behind them.

This sharp Ruidian cavalry will fight with the main cavalry in front.

Launch surprise attacks from both directions,

Then like a pair of scissors that merged together, it cut through the dense formation of the Kujit cavalry,

A disorganized cavalry team is fatal,

The scattered queues had no ability to resist in front of the dense and huge cavalry group.

This resulted in the Kugits, who had a superior military strength of 40,000, being killed in a catastrophe without even having time to organize the most basic resistance in the Shaman urban battle, with nearly 30,000 casualties.

The remaining 20,000 tribal troops had to choose to retreat to Turga in front of the 30,000 Ruidian cavalry.

Only a royal court squadron of about 5,000 people was left in Shamandu, the Acropolis. At this moment, Turga is holding a tribal carnival for the Laren warriors in the grassland, and they are unable to organize an army counterattack at all.

The scale of war is tilted towards the Ruidian people at this moment

The two eastern Ruidian banner regiments occupying the outskirts took the opportunity to advance northward, constantly driving away any Kugit troops that might appear in the surrounding areas, while quickly cutting off the connection between Shaman Capital City and Turga City.

The other main force began to dismount and fight on foot with shields raised, besieging the Shaman capital city with only 5,000 people. This is the most important fortress of King Turga in the middle of the grassland.

It is also the first place where the main force of Rui Erdian's army marches north.

Conquer the capital city of Shaman,

Not only can it cut off the connection between the royal court and other outposts in the south, but it can also allow the Ruidian people, whose army penetrates deep into the hinterland of the grassland, to obtain an excellent place to station and hoard supplies.

Marshal Ruedian Bertrand's plan was not perfect. He mobilized the Eastern Army to attack the capital of Sarman, which was like a sharp dagger grazing the throat of the Kugit Palace.

The originally extremely unfavorable situation was overturned in an instant,

Unfortunately, war is always full of surprises and surprises.

The Ruidian cavalry defeated the Kugits who were good at field battles in the wilderness, but suffered heavy losses in siege warfare, which they were best at.

The fifth squadron of the Royal Family Guards is stationed in Shamandu City.

This is a squadron composed of hurricane archers that is rare in the Kugit army. Before being transferred to Shamandu City, the fifth squadron was mainly responsible for the defense of the inner city of Turga, the royal court.

King Kujit handed over the first fortress to them. One can imagine his trust and ability in this army.

It is his identity and glory as Wang Tingjun,

When the main force outside the city suffered heavy losses and chose to retreat, they still chose to stay without hesitation.

Five thousand hurricane shooters may only be a good long-range attack force in a field battle, but in a city wall battle, they are definitely a formidable opponent.

The Kugit people grew up holding bows and arrows. Archer is just a very common title, but if you want to become a higher-level hurricane archer,

At least it needs to be able to hit the wind chime swinging on the roof of the tent from a hundred meters away, hit the arrow target fifty meters away from the galloping horse, and accurately hit a rushing antelope within fifty meters.

These seemingly fancy skills are actually the sharpest means of attack on the battlefield.

The Ruidian army attacking the city, just like the tribal army that suffered a fatal blow from them, was completely unprepared for the details of this special defending force.

They are the steppe legion from the east. Their opponents are the Kugit cavalry. They don't care much about the hurricane shooter squadron guarding the city wall.

Archers are only an auxiliary unit in the Khujit army. This was evident in previous encounters with the Khujit army.

In fact, no matter how good a shooter is,

On the horseback that is constantly rising and falling, his shooting accuracy will be greatly reduced, just like if he clearly wants to shoot the enemy's head, it may be because of the rising and falling of the war horse that his shooting accuracy will be greatly reduced.

Arrowheads can fly into the air and draw a regrettable arc, so the Kugits often place these archers who follow the main cavalry on the side of the main cavalry.

During the large-scale frontal cavalry assault, use these horse archers to constantly harass the enemy's formation.

Create a gap for the main cavalry that is about to crash into the enemy's formation. As long as the opponent's formation is shaken in the rain of arrows, the main cavalry who are good at assault can tear the enemy into pieces along this gap.

It is a pity that the hurricane archers encountered by the Lion Wings this time did not have horses, and their arrow clusters would not be missed due to the leaping horses.

The sharp Kujit arrows knocked down the intensively charging Ruidian cavalry 150 steps away.

Because this time, in order to achieve the purpose of sudden attack, the Ruidian cavalry all wore simple mail armor and ordinary flying cavalry shields.

This kind of shield, which can only cover half of the body, when charging,

The Ruidian cavalry can be used to protect the body on the flanks while quickly thrusting out their spears.

But in front of the hurricane shooter, who is famous for his accurate shooting,

The densely moving Ruidian soldiers were undoubtedly like a target that was leaking from all directions. The accurate arrowheads of the hurricane shooters shot from time to time into the bodies of their companions behind them through the gaps in their shields.