Rise of the Empire Total War

"Your Majesty, in today's battle, our army lost two hundred and twenty-three soldiers, not counting the injuries..."

Listening to the report by lieutenant general Magnus, Richard, who was in the royal library in the Tus palace, frowned slightly. He didn't look back, and asked while looking at the "History of Pravia Palace" in his hand. : "How many enemy troops have been wiped out by our army?"

"The statistics are not yet complete, but it is estimated that at least five hundred enemies should have been killed, including dozens of foot knights." Magnus replied.

"Walking knights?" Richard closed the history book in his hand, turned around, looked at Magnus, and asked, "How did they perform in battle?"

Seeing Richard's question, Magnus lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and commented: "Compared to our ordinary soldiers, it is indeed outstanding, but compared to our army's foot knights, it is inferior." Quite a few."

"Hmm." Richard nodded, this kind of evaluation was within his expectation, he then put the history book in his hand back to its original place, and said: "Let the company with more casualties be withdrawn for repairs, um... Later, you will follow me to the city wall to have a look."

"As ordered."

...

More than ten minutes later, accompanied by Magnus, Richard and his party boarded the city wall of Tus. Most of the corpses here were carried away, and the blood on the ground was also washed with clean water. Richard It can be seen that those difficult-to-clean stumps and broken arms and fragments of human internal organs are floating in the bloody water with the washing of the water waves.

"Tsk tsk tsk." Seeing all this, Richard couldn't help making a tsk tsk sound. He stepped over the corpses of soldiers from both sides who hadn't been carried away on the ground, and walked to the wall covered with battle marks. On the edge of the stack, looking out. There were also many enemy corpses lying in the open space outside the city, and the ground was also filled with arrows shot by the defenders. The coalition soldiers with white flags were cleaning up the battlefield. They carried away the corpses of their comrades and cremated them, scattered all over the place All the weapons are also recycled. As for the arrows inserted on the ground, those that can be recovered can be recovered, and those that cannot be recovered can only be left inserted.

For these enemies who cleaned up the battlefield, the defenders on the city wall did not launch an attack, but watched them vigilantly. This has actually become a tacit understanding. In the part of the battlefield, at this time, neither side will attack the other party's people, but let the other party safely collect the dead body of Pao Ze for burial or cremation.

It is worth mentioning that the walls of the city of Tus are open at this time, and the soldiers of the First Legion will also go out of the city gate to clean up the enemy's corpses, and collect arrows, weapons, armor and shields that can still be used. They will unconditionally return the corpses of the enemy soldiers that they have received to the enemy.

As a tribute to these brave soldiers who died in battle.

Richard glanced over these soldiers with white flags, and cast his eyes on the siege camp several miles away. The siege camps of the coalition forces were not unified, and their barracks were built by the armies of various countries. The barracks built by the Kingdom of Qi are of this style, and the camps of the Kingdom of Deira are of that style. Each country is different, and it looks like a strange hodgepodge.

He quietly observed the outer defenses of the coalition camp, and he didn't know why. The outer defenses of some places in the coalition camp seemed to be very loose. The walls they built were only made of wood less than three meters high. A thin wooden wall, and outside the wooden wall there is only a shallow small earth ditch that can barely be called a trench-if this is used to defend against enemy attacks, then it would be too contemptuous of Richard and his team. Army now!

Except for this very weird line of defense, other places can only be said to be quite satisfactory, but Richard just took a look, and gave up the idea of ​​​​using the heavy cavalry in the city to attack at night. He has no suitable way to break through the encirclement. If the camp’s walls were attacked by cavalry at night, they would be discovered before they found a way to get in. At that time, no matter whether the night attack turned into a storm or a desperate retreat, it would have a blow to the morale of the army.

Seeing Richard's gloomy face, the lieutenant-general Magnus who was standing behind him and also observing the besieged camp suddenly spoke, "Your Majesty, if you want to launch a night attack on the enemies outside the city, I have a workaround."

"Oh?" Richard looked back at Magnus subconsciously, and quickly asked, "What method?"

"Your Majesty, no matter which army it is, the most fearful thing when sleeping at night is the roar of the camp. Once the roar of the camp occurs, no matter how disciplined it is, it will turn into a catastrophic civil strife. If we manually let the enemy fight at night If there is a roar..."

Magnus didn't finish his sentence, but Richard understood what he meant, with a sudden realization expression on his face, he clapped his hands together and said, "This method is good, we can really try it."

The so-called Ying Xiao means that the soldiers are too tense due to the daily high pressure or the war. In one night, it may be that a certain soldier had a nightmare and started screaming, which woke up others and caused them to cry too. They are all infected with this hysterical and crazy atmosphere, and they completely break free from the shackles of military discipline and vent their madness. In the chaos, some people with a clear mind may take up weapons to retaliate against those who have had enemies on weekdays, causing even greater chaos. , The entire barracks fell into a vortex of infighting.

If the mere scream of a soldier in a nightmare could cause such disaster, wouldn't the deafening noise of the explosion of gunpowder be more effective? Richard thought so, but he crossed out the plan immediately. He was afraid that the explosion of the gunpowder would not only cause the roar of the camp, but would wake up all the soldiers. However, he quickly thought of another method, which was to use A kind of arrow that can emit a sharp whistling, and shoots over the camp.

The so-called screaming arrow is just a special arrow prepared by the archer. The end of this arrow will be equipped with a special device. This device will make a very sharp and shrill sound when flying at high speed in the air. It can also be used to scare the enemy. Since it can scare the enemy in normal battles, wouldn't it be more effective to use it when the enemy is asleep? Hearing such a shrill and terrifying sound in sleep, the brain that is still in a state of confusion will undoubtedly make a wrong judgment, imagining this sound as the scream of a demon.

Thinking of this, Richard showed a satisfied smile on his face. He made up his mind and told Magnus beside him what he thought.