The night after this. otbnkotgt Humans and centaurs.
In other words, both the settled civilized people and the nomadic barbarians are recuperating.
Build up your energy.
In order to ensure that he has sufficient physical strength during the battle during the day the next day.
That's it, at six o'clock in the morning, William got up on time, washed up, and put on his most beautiful general uniform.
Wear your sword.
After everything was properly dressed, the door was opened.
Went out.
"general" Outside the door, the New Army staff officers and guard company soldiers led by William saw him and immediately stood at attention and saluted.
"Star officer on duty."
After William returned the greeting, he walked towards the east side, near the protective wall on the side of the Vistula River.
At the same time, he asked: "How is the situation?"
"The Tartar army has begun crossing the river, General."
In formal situations like the battlefield, William preferred to be called a general rather than an earl.
"Yeah.
Got it."
William nodded, then waved forward.
"Go to the front lines."
Following his order, the guards in two teams turned eastward.
Then it was divided from two columns into four columns, protecting both sides of William.
Amidst the sound of military boots, William reached the top of the east guard wall, and then stretched out his hand to the star officer on duty.
The duty officer immediately handed over the monocular telescope that had been prepared.
"Yes."
After casually agreeing, William von Hereford looked at the Tartarian army opposite.
Their advance was not very fast.
However, some light cavalry had already crossed the Vistula River first.
Line up on the west bank of the river and wait.
"It's to prevent our army's light cavalry from harassing us, so it's a good idea to use light cavalry to defend in advance.
It's a pity."
When William said this, he couldn't help but shook his head.
The other party is doing absolutely useless work.
Because our own side does not have enough troops at all, especially the cavalry troops who take the initiative to attack the enemy.
"Using artillery bombardment will completely outweigh the losses.
The opponent's troops are not many, probably only a thousand-man team, and the array is loose.
The effect of the artillery bombardment will not be too great."
William regretted thinking of this.
In order to avoid a tidal flat on the bank of the Vistula River, William made concessions in the location of the fortress.
This river mouth fortress was built about two kilometers west of the Vistula River.
At this distance, the effectiveness of artillery is greatly reduced.
In other words, it is almost impossible for our side to prevent the opponent from crossing the river by shelling.
But there is no way.
The tidal flats become part of the Vistula River when the river overflows.
In addition, the soil there is too soft and there is no way to build a qualified foundation.
If you forcibly build buildings there, you will also face problems such as ground subsidence.
"There's no way.
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But it doesn't matter.
The real battle has just begun."
William thought in his heart.
The autumn wind made his black cloak rustle.
Behind the thousand-man light cavalry were Tartaria's main infantry and artillery units.
Still out of caution, Sarida Khan arranged the troops to cross the river in a very particular order.
He did not move the infantry or artillery units across the river in one go, but divided these units into smaller mixed units and then crossed the river together.
This can slowly increase the number of troops without worrying about exposing the artillery units to danger because the defense force is too weak.
"It's just that the speed is not too fast.
After all, the vast majority of the Slavi army is a feudal army.
It is natural that the organization is insufficient."
William thought in his heart.
"Judging from the speed at which the other party is crossing the river.
In about half an hour, the other party will be able to cross three to five thousand-man teams."
Next to William, Shalumi, who came after hearing the news, replied: "Do you want to " "It's still not possible to determine the opponent's tactics."
William put down the telescope, and then threw it to the duty officer: "So, for the time being, the frontline troops need to take a rest and don't tense up.
But don't relax your vigilance."
In this way, half an hour later, four thousand troops had already set foot on the west bank of the Vistula River.
Two of the thousand troops were one of Salida Khan's trump cards, the Slavi New Army.
The other two thousand-man troops were mostly traditional Slavi infantry without armor, equipped with a small amount of scale armor, various battle axes, round shields and broad swords.
At the same time, a small amount of equipment was equipped with compound bows and muskets.
Regardless of combat effectiveness, organization, tactics or fighting will, they are not too high.
As for the artillery force, there were about thirty light six-pound guns, which were pushed or pulled by the opponent's horses and manpower across the Vistula River.
"Four thousand-man infantry, plus one thousand-man cavalry, and thirty infantry cannons."
William calculated the opponent's strength.
At the same time, they watched the other side continue to send troops to the other side of the river.
Even with a military strength of more than five thousand, the Tartarian army still had no intention of attacking the fortress.
In this case, the Mystia Army, as the defender, was naturally unable to take the initiative to attack.
The two sides were in a stalemate.
This stalemate made William particularly uncomfortable "Damn it.
At this time, the river fleet should have appeared to prevent the other party from crossing the river.
Those cowardly Polotsk people."
William cursed those Polotsk people angrily in his heart.
Yes, Tartariya's coastal artillery group has been weakened a lot compared to the past few days.
It was the Polotsk inland fleet that came out, and the artillery group was weakened a lot.
Boom, interfere with the opponent's great opportunity to cross the river.
However, it seems that the people of Polotsk were frightened by the failure a few days ago.
So no matter what William said, they refused to fight.
"Don't advance when it's time to advance, don't retreat when it's time to retreat.
If they are my subordinates, I will definitely shoot them."
Thinking of this, William felt itchy at the base of his teeth.
That's it.
In the first round of the battle, the Tartarians had the upper hand.
With little hindrance, the Khan's army was passing by the pontoon bridge and reaching the west bank of the Vistula River.
In this way, the morale of the Tartarian army naturally increased, while the morale of the Mystian army decreased accordingly.
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"No problem, no problem at all," William thought in his heart: "It's impossible for the other party to transport all the 200,000 troops to the west bank of the Vistula River, right?
In this case, the other party can only transport them for one morning.
We can transport 20,000 to 30,000 troops, that’s all.”
While William was thinking this in his mind, bursts of noise came from the east bank of the Vistula River.
Accompanied by the earth-shattering sound of the big cowhide drum, a group of centaur heavy cavalry wearing heavy scales came roaring across the water.
As if they had received a signal, the Tartarian army on the west bank of the Vistula also began to move.
Under the cover of two light cavalry teams of 1,000 people, the Slavi infantry who barely formed a team of 2,000 people carried ladders, maintained the array, and slowly advanced towards the fortress.
Surrounding these two 10,000-person troops were nearly a hundred six-pound and nine-pound infantry cannon.
"The opponent's formation is widely spread out, semi-encircling our fortress.
The five directions of east, southeast, northeast, south and north are being targeted."
William thought in his heart.
At the same time, he secretly admired: "The other party's commanding ability is not bad.
The army of more than 20,000 was commanded like an arm and a finger.
As they marched into the ancient city, they dispersed the formation little by little.
In addition to Sali, Tartariya Besides Dahan, there are other commanders of this level."
William was certain that it was not Salida Khan himself who commanded this army.
Because of the Khan's representative, Jiu'ao Baizhen and Qixue's army did not cross the river.
"Who is that person?"
Soon, William captured the suspected commander.
Under the guard of the centaur heavy cavalry that finally crossed the river, he was wearing golden armor, the strongest and most stern-looking centaur.
"He is Kublai" Such a name couldn't help but pop up in William's mind.
"I was my strong rival before, so I probably underestimated him."
Such thoughts flashed through William's mind.
Then he immediately waved his hand and ordered: "Fortress artillery, aim at the enemy infantry and fire freely."
Although William wanted to give the order and concentrate all his firepower to kill the centaur Huitaiji, his reason still overwhelmed his emotions.
The artillery hit rate of this era was very low.
At this distance, despite having entered the range.
But at most it can only diffuse some larger targets, or hit the opponent's main force.
Concentrating firepower may result in more losses than gains.
The probability of actually killing Kublai Lai is very, very low.
Following William's order, the fort's forts immediately came into operation, deploying five thirty-two-pound cannons, two forty-eight-pound cannons, and twenty eighteen-pound cannons in five directions: east, southeast, northeast, south, and north. and more than thirty twelve-pound guns opened fire one after another.
In an instant, the earth-shaking roar of artillery overwhelmed the Centaur drum on the other side.
The blazing projectiles, like hail of steel, left the barrel of the cannon under the power of gunpowder, setting off large swaths of corpses and fragments of flesh and blood in the Slavian phalanx.
Screams came and went.
Under the influence of a large number of artillery shells, a few of the Slavi Thousands who were unlucky enough to be taken care of lost a tenth of their troops in an instant.
The array is showing signs of collapse "Terrible firepower."
Guarded by the Centaur heavy cavalry, Kublai Lai, the forward commander of Tartaria, lamented: "Human beings are indeed useless.
If fought one on one, even the weakest Centaur They can easily kill a human being.
However, their manufacturing ability is really " Having said this, Kublai stopped sighing.
He ordered loudly: "Accelerate and deploy artillery positions.
To fight back, ask Father Khan for support.
Give me two thousand centaur shooters.
I will use them to suppress the long-range firepower of the opponent's fortress." 160420oshow7: