While Bazel was busy gathering his troops, the 2,500 towed guns of the 1st Far Eastern Artillery Division and all the artillery had moved forward five miles and re-established the artillery positions. , when Bazel finally finished assembling his troops, mounted his horse and raised his command sword, and was about to give the order to charge.
The 1st Far Eastern Artillery Division, 10 miles away, had already set up the firing elements in accordance with the battlefield coordinates provided by the aviation and launched the first round of artillery bombardment against Bazel's corps.
With a continuous roar, thousands of cannonballs whizzed, converging into a shining cloud in the air, illuminating the stunned faces of the imperial officers and soldiers below, and then fell in clusters, like a rain of meteors falling from the sky, turning the area where Bazel's army had gathered into a hell on earth filled with gunpowder and raging flames.
"If you don't want to die, rush out for me" Bazel's eyes were bloodshot from the smoke of gunpowder, like a mad bull, brandishing his command knife and urging his men to rush out of the artillery-covered area.
However, the cannons of the Far Easterners followed the force forward as if they had eyes, and the barrage of steel and fire remained above the heads of the Bazel legions, and wherever they rushed, the shells fell like prophets.
This variant of the "Xu Jin barrage shooting" tactic played an excellent role in the blocking battle, and the ground artillery blockade combined with the waves of bombs dropped overhead, so that Bazel's high-hopedly Jedi counterattack was on the verge of collapse before it could reach the Far East attacking force.
Major General Frannis, commander of the 1st Independent Armored Knight Brigade in the Far East, noticed through the telescope that the enemy was staggering forward in the face of artillery fire and air raids, approaching his area in a dying and struggling posture, and immediately ordered all three hundred and six mechanical armors under his command to turn into defense on the spot, forming an arc-shaped "Great Wall of Steel" in front of the position on the east bank of the empire.
All the armored knights raised the rapid-fire magic crystal cannon, locked on the opposite side of the imperial knights rushing over and pulled the trigger, and a large bright light curtain was immediately brushed out on the battlefield shrouded in the setting sun, and the high-speed armor-piercing bullets converged into a steel storm and swept across the wasteland, ruthlessly sweeping down the "noble and heroic" imperial elite knights in Bazel's mouth one by one, and people and horses burst out of blood one after another, and the screams of sorrow came and went.
The "Punishment Knights" and "Law-Breaking Knights" with their unique skills can win more and more in the face of traditional troops, and steadily crush those grassroots officers and soldiers who do not have extraordinary professions, which is the foundation of the Yashan Empire's thousand-year-old dominance.
However, when the wheel of the times came to the turn of the spring and summer of 1625, the foundation of the Assanian Empire's supremacy had been shaken, and these once invincible and glorious "Knights of Punishment" and "Knights of Punishment" gradually fell behind the times.
The battle lasted only forty minutes before Bazel's counterattack intentions were declared bankrupt.
After all, the Imperial knights were well-trained, barely able to maintain order in the face of head-on attacks from the air and the ground, moving backwards under the supervision of officers to reorganize the defensive line, while the two servant infantry divisions were exposed in their original form on the battlefield under heavy artillery fire, reflecting the essence of the rabble, and retreated and scattered.
Like a flood of water, the rout instinctively fled towards the rear and flanks of the position.
The routed troops fleeing to both sides of the battlefield were mercilessly blocked by the "Holy Guard Heavy Cavalry Division" and the "Ranger Cavalry Division" in the Far East, and the routed troops that fled back to the rear were even more troublesome, directly hindering the Bazel Brigade and its attendant light cavalry division, which were regrouping and trying to launch a counter-charge.
Bazel ordered the destruction of all obstacles in the line of the charge, whether by the Far Easterners or his own servant infantry, as if they were driving away panicked sheep as cannon fodder for a counterattack.
However, this seemingly spectacular army was exposed to its fragile nature when faced with a steel front made of mechanical armor, and was suppressed by a combination of magic crystal cannons, grenadiers, grenades, and air rifles, and it was not long before it retreated with heavy casualties.
At 4:10 p.m., the Far Eastern Guards Heavy Cavalry Division and the Ranger Hunter Division launched a pincer offensive from the left and right flanks of the battlefield, and Bazel's troops were encircled on three sides, and the only way to retreat was also blocked by the Far Eastern artillery and air forces, and they fell into a desperate situation where they could not advance or retreat.
At 5:15 p.m. on 6 May, the twilight on the east bank positions was filled with the smell of blood and panic.
Palatina learned that Bazel's troops were in a desperate situation, so she had no choice but to lead her troops to support, hoping to rescue as many Imperial knights as possible, after all, they were all children of nobles and pillars of the country.
Palatina herself was of noble origin, and seeing Baazel and his noble knights struggling under the fire of the cannons inevitably felt a kind of sadness.
However, her efforts were doomed to be in vain.
As soon as the "First Disciplinary Brigade" was assembled, it was targeted by the Far Eastern Pegasus Sentinels on air patrol, and they still grabbed the medicine according to the prescription, and first came a round of dive bombing, followed by artillery suppression.
Blocked by the combined ground and air forces of the Far Eastern artillery and air forces, Palatina and her knights could not move an inch, and there was no strength left to rescue the besieged Bazel army.
Palatina forced herself to calm down under the fire, realizing that she could not withstand the bombardment of the Far East Air Force to rescue Bazel, so she had to take out the High Communication Stone and ask the Imperial Air Force for support.
However, the First Fleet of the Imperial Air Force was now under siege by the Far Eastern Wyvern Knights, and it was still too busy to take care of itself, and General Baker had no spare strength to help the Palatina Brigade eliminate the air threat; As for the Second Fleet of the Imperial Air Force, the commander, Vice Admiral Homzberg, did not respond to her call for help at all.
Paladina did not know whether General Homzberg was intent on dying or whether he was equally in a predicament, and his heart was more than enough.
Air support waited a long time, and when night fell, another bad news came from the front.
As Palatina feared most, Bazel's recklessness had irreparable consequences: the 1st Breaking Brigade and its accompanying light cavalry divisions were wiped out, and the two servant infantry divisions had collapsed.
Baron Bazel himself was hit by a 500-pound aerial bomb during the charge, and his horse was blown to pieces on the spot.
The guards who fled back to report the news did not know what happened to Bazel after he was blown up, but it was common sense to infer that he was bombarded at close range, and even if he was not killed on the spot, he could not escape the fate of being seriously injured and captured.
The bad news dashed Palatina's hopes, and now that Bazel's forces were wiped out, it didn't matter if the air force could come to their aid.
With the little force in her hands, she couldn't even collect Bazel's body, so she had to lead her troops to withdraw to their positions
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