Rise of the Empire Total War

"Give me back my legions, Varus! - Augustus Caesar, Emperor of the Roman Empire, when Varus's legions were destroyed"

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In the Kingdom of Lumi, outside the city of Iluberis, artillery fire continued.

Looking at the cracked city walls and the deep holes one after another, the commander of the second brigade, Butters Stotsey, did not show any happy expression. He frowned, and put one hand on the On the hilt of the scabbard, the inexplicable uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense, making him a little out of breath.

"There must be something about to happen." He came to such a conclusion. He suddenly regretted letting the second regiment split up to face the army of the Kingdom of Karta. Now that he is alone, he should have concentrated his forces and acted cautiously, but he still acted rashly Divide half of the troops, if this is the enemy's trap, it will be miserable.

Although he doesn't think that the Lumi and Kartas are capable of annihilating his own army, but if he loses a large number of soldiers and horses due to his negligence, even if he conquers these two countries, there will still be some shadows on his achievements .

"Slow down the attack first, the artillery continues to fire, and the infantry builds fortifications."

Just in case, he still ordered the soldiers to be vigilant and build fortifications around the camp. When he issued this order, he felt a little bitter in his heart. In order to make a quick decision, he did not follow the regulations in the infantry drill code to build defenses. Fortifications, at that time he was full of confidence, thinking that he could conquer the city directly, so there was no need to waste effort on those things, so that now he had to rush to work temporarily and start from scratch.

At the same time, on a high ground north of Iluberis City, a small group of barbarian cavalry stopped and stayed. The two leading generals looked at the faintly visible camp of Winster's army, and their hearts were eager to try, with plans to succeed. pleasure.

"Chief Kurban, the Winsters don't know our existence yet. When they attack Iluberis with full confidence, they turn around and find us rushing out from behind. At that time, they will definitely be scared on the spot Crash."

Hearing this, Kurban, the barbarian leader in exquisite chain mail, smiled slightly, raised his hand holding the horsewhip, pointed to the Winster army camp in the distance, and said, "If the Winster people don't divide their troops, it will be a big deal for us." It is still a bit tricky, but since they took the initiative to divide their troops, it gave us a good chance. As long as the remaining Winster army launched an attack on the city wall of Iluberis, our army took advantage of the situation and cooperated with the defenders. flank the enemy, and a great victory will be born."

"Master Lorenzo, please rest assured and watch from behind, the blood god's people will not let you down."

"Is it,

Then I will wait for your good news, Chief Kurban. The Balaria nobleman named Lorenzo said with a smile. An imperceptible contempt flashed in the corner of his eyes, which was quickly covered up. He was really dissatisfied with going out with the barbarian cavalry. He could only bring a team of personal guard cavalry to join the leader of Kurban, and then went south.

Although the performance of the barbarian cavalry satisfied many Valdasian nobles, the contempt rooted in their hearts was still difficult to eliminate. In order to win the final victory, they could only hide their disdain deep in their hearts.

"Victory, how attractive you are. You have attracted countless generals to follow you, but they all died on the way to compete for you." Lorenzo flashed such a sentence in his heart. If he remembers correctly, this sentence is recorded In a book written by a sage, it is not unreasonable to taste it now.

Recalling what the king's envoy told him before he set off, Lorenzo couldn't help but look at the barbarian cavalry army that continued behind the high ground. This army had more than 4,500 cavalry, most of which were abandoned Animal fur coats with a lot of defensive power, replaced with armor and weapons provided by the Kingdom of Balaria and other kingdoms, the combat power and defense power have increased several times at once, not only a sharp weapon against the Winsters, but also a threat to the coalition forces a double-edged sword.

They are not sure that the barbarian cavalry will be 100% obedient, and the rebellious barbarians cannot be restrained only by a poor treaty. They can only rely on the high wealth to control a few barbarian leaders, and then through the barbarian leaders Drive cheap savages to fight for them.

If it weren't for the purpose of annihilating this lonely Winster army in one fell swoop, several countries would not generously give weapons and equipment to the barbarians for free. This is also a consideration of King Aisham. It seems that as long as this lone army can be wiped out, the powerful individual weapons and artillery equipped by the Winsters can be seized and used on the battlefield, the situation can be broken and the deadlock can be changed on the stalemate frontal battlefield. And with these terrible weapons, the threat of barbarian cavalry will be much smaller.

Butters is not here. He has already been coveted by others. After the continuous bombardment of the second brigade artillery, the city wall of Iluberis finally couldn't bear the pressure and collapsed, causing the defenders to scream again and again. They had already evacuated this area when it was on the verge of collapse, so as to avoid causing additional casualties, but even so, such a strong city wall could be blown down in a short period of time, which still refreshed their worldview. The morale of the defenders was shaken, and they had no intention of fighting, but under the encouragement of the officers, they still bit the bullet and went up.

Seeing the collapse of the city wall, Butters heaved a sigh of relief, the premonition of uneasiness did not happen, the defenders were still so weak, from the information received from the messenger, the second regiment sent out was fighting the Karta army, relying on Advanced firearms frantically suppress the enemy, and everything is moving in a good direction.

Thinking of this, he put down the big stone hanging in his heart, and ordered the rest of the army except for the two guard brigades directly under the brigade headquarters to attack in an all-round way, and attacked the city along the gap in the fallen city wall. Seeing that the enemy had launched an attack, the defenders and archers who remained on the city wall shot one after another, intending to block the advance of the Wensters. At the same time, the soldiers equipped with shields also lined up behind the gap under the command of the officer. Put out a tight shield formation, and peek out through the gap between the shields.

"Raise your guns and advance! You are the pride of the kingdom and an invincible army!"

In his ear was the encouragement of the company commander. Karl Yalma, who had been demoted from an adjutant to an ordinary soldier, experienced the feeling of being on the battlefield for the first time. He didn't even have time to take care of the arrows flying overhead from time to time.

What they didn't know was that the danger was approaching, and a large group of barbarian cavalry was ready to go.