rise of empire total war

Chapter 92 Before the decisive battle (for subscription)
"Father, do we really want to let Richard and his army pass directly?"

In Cochraneburg, Earl Bundak stood on the tower of the city wall, looking at the army slowly advancing like black worms on the distant horizon, with complex emotions in his eyes. At this time, the voice of his dear heir Baden sounded behind him After listening to the sound, Bandak nodded slightly, and said lightly: "We have no reason to intercept Richard, let him and the Ramirez dog bite the dog, we just need to wait for the right time."

"What if the Ramirez people defeat Richard? How should we deal with it?" Baden was not worried about this, he thought further, "The ambitions of the Ramirez people may not be limited to the three counties in the east. , once they beat Richard, then it's us."

"Do you think they will have the strength to fight us after the war with Richard?" Bundak sneered, with his hands behind his back, and said, "Richard is not a persimmon, the war four years ago Among them, the fighting power of the soldiers he brought was beyond my expectation, and after four years of development, I believe his strength will be even stronger. Even if he loses in the war with the Ramirez, he will still deal a heavy blow to the enemy , so that the Ramirez people dare not continue westward.”

"Then shall we sit in the strong castle and watch them fight?" Barden obviously didn't want to stay in the castle. He looked at the kingdom's army that was going further and further away, with a hint of unwillingness in his eyes.

Bandak smiled slightly. He looked at his son who was about to be as tall as himself, and comforted him: "My dear Barden, don't worry, it's not the right time yet. When it's time to send troops, I will let you go I will go out together."

"Okay." Barden nodded. Although he agreed with his mouth, he was still very unwilling to wait.Baden, who is 18 years old this year, has lived in a martial family since he was a child. He is very yearning to charge into the battle. He is always eager to take the sharp sword his father gave him to cut off the head of the hateful enemy. However, he still has no such opportunity.

Only those who have never experienced war desire war.

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A few days later, the army of the Kingdom of Ravana entered the territory of Luwen. This army did not deliberately hide its whereabouts during the march (in fact, there was no way to hide it), so it was pulled into the territory of Luwen as soon as it entered the territory. Scouts from the Miles spotted it and reported to their camp outside Leuven.

Knowing that the reinforcements of the Ravana had finally arrived, King Oweko stood up from his chair suddenly. He finally waited for this day to come. Ravana's reinforcements, which were significantly smaller than them, fought a decisive battle-his calculation was very loud, and he defeated the Ravana reinforcements on the other side of the river in Luwen City, forcing the defenders to surrender with a brilliant victory. The reinforcements have all been defeated, and there is no hope of victory for these defenders if they hold on.

More importantly, Ramirez's army also has a group of heavy cavalry that has been cultivated with great concentration over the past four years, and the plain on the other side of Luwen City is more suitable for cavalry operations. Oweko wants to use heavy cavalry to defeat the enemy on this plain, as if It was the same as the decisive battle four years ago.

October 1109, 10, Lowen River plain.

The reinforcements of the Ravana finally arrived. They entered from the southwest of the plain and formed in place.Under Richard's arrangement, the army lined up next to a small forest at the mouth of the plain. The Kuban army he brought was deployed in the center, and the Mabuku army provided by the Earl of Adelaide was deployed on the right flank close to the forest. On one side, the feudal knights were hidden in the woods, while a large army of more than a dozen barons was deployed on the left flank. In order to prevent these baron armies from collapsing quickly because they could not be closely united, Richard also put his feudal army on foot. The Cavaliers deployed the second line of defense on the left wing.

In order to facilitate the command, Richard appointed a commander on the left and right wings. The left wing commanded the baron army was a Baron Grace from the barony of Ravana City. He participated in including the decisive battle four years ago. The commander of the right wing is Copperfield, the military commander of Mabuku who led the army to go out with Richard, although Richard did not know his military ability. I understand, but the person who can become the military commander of an earl country must not be too bad.

Let's talk about the composition of the military formations. Including the central army commanded by Richard himself, the three military formations all deploy light infantry in front, and several lines of defense composed of heavy infantry (including militia and peasant soldiers) will resist the enemy. The attack, and all the cavalry of the entire army were deployed and hidden in the woods together with the feudal knights, and only waited for the right time to attack.

After the deployment, Richard looked at the slowly approaching enemy in the distance, his pupils shook suddenly, his face showed a look of surprise, and then became serious again.He found that the Ramirez people lined up all the cavalry in front of the formation. These cavalry were large in size, and they were only a lot more than Richard's cavalry. In addition, the Ramirez people's cavalry were all It seems very tricky to imitate the Ravana heavy cavalry for equipment and training.

The formation of the Ramirez people made Richard understand their intentions in an instant. He deployed the heavy cavalry at the forefront, no doubt wanting to use the heavy cavalry to attack the Ravana army first, and then use the heavy cavalry to tear the infantry line of defense. The Ramirez infantry immediately followed up, smashing down the Ravana defense line along the gap, just like the decisive battle that took place on the Plain of Singland four years ago.

"Do you want history to repeat itself here?" Richard said with a sneer, "It's a pity you don't have that ability."

After saying that, he summoned the messenger, and told the latter: "Order the front-line heavy-armored sergeants to form an anti-riding hedgehog circle before the enemy cavalry charges."

"Follow the order." The messenger immediately took the order and left.Watching his leaving back, Richard recalled the effect of the hedgehog circle in the game.

The hedgehog formation is an anti-cavalry formation that can be listed by all units equipped with spears in the game except the town militia.After the order to form a circle of hedgehogs is given, all the soldiers will gather back to back to form a circle, with their spears pointing out in unison, like a hedgehog bursting with thorns, making it impossible to attack.

However, in the game, the circle of hedgehogs can't reflect its anti-riding effect at all. In his previous life, Richard often used spear militiamen to form a circle of hedgehogs to reach the charge of the enemy's heavy cavalry. The soldiers suffered heavy losses, and the heavy cavalry who charged were turned on their backs.

"Ugh-"

At this moment, the dull horn sounded in the distance brought him back to reality. Richard followed the sound and saw that the cavalry brigade of the Ramirez people was slowly advancing, approaching the Ravana Kingdom army formation!

(End of this chapter)