Chapter 278 Battle of Arrant (begin)

The weather in early winter was already very cold. The soldiers wore thick cotton-padded clothes and covered with a layer of cold armor, which looked clumsy and slow. The mountains and plains stretched for miles were covered with dense armies, and the army of the Eternal Night Empire finally appeared on the border of the Principality of the Holy Sword.

"Fight with the most moderate fish scales! I want to see how terrible the so-called magic cannon is!" Ye Shengwu sat on his war horse and looked confidently at his hundreds of thousands of troops, all over the mountains and fields: "What ability does the Duchy of Shengjian have to defeat such an army? Humph."

"The other party is setting up the most traditional square array, which looks unchanged! Our cavalry can easily defeat the opponent as long as they attack both wings!" A general suggested.

"Do you look like an idiot who can annex several armies of the Principality? Don't use your brain! Order the troops not to easily enter the opponent's attack position. At the farthest distance, 500 meters is the line, and send three 10,000 square arrays to attack to try the reality. Ye Shengwu was not a reckless man. On the contrary, it can be seen from the time of the Battle of Thor Fortress that he commanded the battle calmly.

He thought for a moment and pointed out that a small man would continue to order: "In addition, you personally led 5,000 cavalry to test the attack from the left wing and retreated back in case of a counterattack."

"Yes!" The young general immediately turned over his horse and took a group of cavalry to the distance, bringing a burst of smoke and dust.

"General Ye Qingyun, you lead 20,000 cavalry to attack the right wing. Remember, 15 minutes after the battle on the left wing starts, you will start attacking, and I will send someone to inform you of the time! Remember not to go out in advance!" Ye Shengwu ordered.

Ye Qingyun was a collateral aristocrat in the royal family and a brave general who had fought for many years and immediately took the order.

"Hum, the three armies are coming together, and the whole line is blooming! I'd like to see how the other party's commander will deal with it!" Ye Shengwu sneered confidently.

On the other side, in the headquarters of the Principality of the Holy Sword, McVlon put down his telescope, studied it with several staff officers of the two division commanders around him, and formulated a counterattack plan.

"Order the elf cavalry troops to kill after 3 rounds of arrow rain on the front battlefield! Defeat the enemy's infantry phalanx in the middle!" McVaron ordered.

"Yes!" An elf officer replied, immediately turned out to prepare to fight back, and then heard all kinds of commandes from the distance.

"The three divisions on the left side hide their strength and only fight back with arrows to block the opponent at a distance of about 300 meters, and can't let the opponent get one step closer to the barbed wire defense line!" McVlon looked at several messengers on the left.

"Yes!" A messenger ran out after answering.

"The four divisions on the right wing gave up the original defense line, advanced 500 meters, and used the cavalry to eat the invading enemy. Remember, the magic cannon is hidden!" McVaron pressed on the map with one hand: "I will accept this tentative 5,000 cavalry, Your Highness Ye Shengwu! If you don't show some real skills, you can't help me!"

On the battlefield, the phalanxes of both sides come and go, dusty.

"Magic Shield! The magic shield rises! Enemy arrows are coming!" An officer looked at the rain of arrows flying like locusts in the distance and ordered.

"Shield Soldier! Meet! Hold on!" The army of the Yongye Empire is also an elite that has been fighting for a long time, so it has responded to the arrow rain in an orderly manner.

The two sides were deadlocked for a while. Because the Yongye Empire was an attacking party, it suffered a small number of casualties, and the position of the Holy Sword Principality had not been attacked.

Suddenly, an elite elf cavalry was killed from the position of the Holy Sword Principality, like a dragon into the sea, rushed into the infantry position of the Yongye Empire, and then turned into a whirlwind, sweeping the three infantry phalanxes of the whole Yongye Empire.

In the face of the counterattack of infantry and cavalry cooperating with the skilled Holy Sword Principality, the attack phalanx of 30,000 people in front of the Yongye Empire was completely defeated, and about 20,000 soldiers returned to their departure place in colembarrasation to get rid of the pursuit of the elf cavalry.

Ye Shengwu received the subsequent news that the attack right wing composed of 20,000 cavalry on his side did not achieve any results and was stopped by the rain of arrows 300 meters away from the defense line of the Holy Sword.

The 5,000 cavalrymen who fought on the left wing were made dumplings by the light cavalry of the Principality of the Holy Sword, and none of them came back. The generals died in battle, and 5,000 people were completely annihilated in front of the opponent's position.

Ye Shengwu's face became ugly. He looked gloomily at a group of generals and suddenly laughed again: "Okay! It's my opponent! Interesting! He ate my bait without hesitation!"

He immediately ordered: "Since you have advanced 500 meters and eaten my left-wing troops, don't go back!" Order 30,000 elite heavy cavalry to attack! Defeat the other's right-wing troops!"

The rumble of horses' hoofs marked the end of the temptation of the Eternal Night Empire. More than 30,000 elite long-gun heavy cavalry rushed to McVlon's right-wing troops to avenge the lost 5,000 cavalry.

"Order to fight back with the magic cannon on the whole line! Since the opponent is not overwhelmed by the whole army, we can take advantage of as much as we can!" In the command post of the Duchy of Sword, McVlon put down his telescope and ordered.

The artillery unit of the Principality of Shengjian, which received the order to counterattack, immediately launched a counterattack, and the front of the two wings of the Shengjian Principality immediately turned into a sea of fire. After leaving the bodies of thousands of cavalry, the troops of the Yongye Empire withdrew from the artillery range of the Shengjian Principality and reorganized the formation.

"Is this the magic gun? It's really a terrible weapon! Fortunately, we know some information in advance. If we rush forward, we will have lost today!" On the side of the Yongye Empire, Ye Shengwu also put down his telescope and sighed.

"The strength of this Holy Sword Principality should not be underestimated!" An old general also sighed, "It's not a good sign to be an enemy of such a country."

"Shut up! It's already at war, so don't say anything depressing! Otherwise, I will nail you to the flagpole and send you to the position!" Ye Shengwu glanced at his men and said with a dark face.

After thinking for a while, Ye Shengwu gently ordered: "Order the troops to retreat 10 miles!" Camp! Arrange fortifications and make a steady defense! If they dare to approach, they will fight back with all the cavalry when the other party's foothold is unstable! After being entangled together, there is nothing terrible about the magic cannon.

McVlon looked at the retreating opponent's army and sighed gently: "I didn't take much advantage. The commander of the other side is very cautious and has no flaws. It's not easy to win this battle quickly."

On November 27 of the Gregorian calendar, the Duke of Shengjian and the Yongye Empire officially clashed in the Arante region for the first time. The Yongye Empire lost less than 20,000 people and retreated, and the Principality of Shengjian won a small victory.

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Today, I was excited to skip a chapter and copy and paste the next chapter to send out T-T, so 2 update =. =