Urban Sims

Chapter 652
How is the combat effectiveness of mercenaries?
relatively strong.

Ten times stronger than a farmer who tills for a living.

Compared with strictly trained army soldiers, an experienced mercenary can easily overthrow him.

But if 100 mercenaries are in PK with 100 regular army soldiers, the mercenaries will fail miserably.

If the number of opponents is one thousand against one thousand, or ten thousand against ten thousand, the mercenaries will collapse at the first touch and disperse.

Individual combat ability is strong, but poor discipline, unable to withstand high casualty rate... This is a common characteristic of mercenaries.

So Zhou Ming didn't plan to let them participate in the field battle in terms of the use of 10 mercenaries.

Instead, the more difficult defensive task was given to them.

The border terrain between Yadude Kingdom and Soliu Kingdom is a trumpet-shaped valley.

Between the two countries is a valley with insurmountable mountains on both sides. The terrain in the valley is relatively flat, and the widest point is 80 miles, and the narrowest point is only 20 miles.

So Zhou Ming set up two lines of defense.

The defensive front of the first line of defense is sixty miles wide and twenty miles deep... In this trapezoidal zone, the Yadude Kingdom has built a total of 120 masonry fortresses, these fortresses are independent of each other, but not far apart far, we can support each other.

On each masonry fortress, about 100 mercenaries were stationed for defense... On the first line of defense, a total of about 1.2 troops were deployed.

The second line of defense is located at the narrowest point at the mouth of the valley, and it relies on a 20-mile-long "city wall" that has been built here for many years.

The city wall is 40 meters high and more than 15 meters thick. It is built with solid rock... It has stood for thousands of years.

This city wall is called the "Guardian Wall".

On the "Wall of Protection", Zhou Ming deployed 8 troops... 6 of them were mercenaries, and 2 were soldiers from his own country.

The 8 army can not only take the initiative to attack and support the masonry fortress on the first line of defense at close range, but also continue to resist the attack of Suoliu Kingdom after the first line of defense collapses.

With an army of 40 and the protection of a 20-meter-high city wall, even if the Suoliu Kingdom was filled with [-] lives, it might not be possible to take it down.

However, in fact, since the beginning of the war, not to mention the second line of defense, even in front of the brick fortress of the first line of defense, the army of the Soliu Kingdom has encountered extremely fierce resistance, and they were beaten to death.

……

"Kill!"

"The first person to ascend the fortress will receive a bounty of 100 coins!"

"Rush! Rush for me!"

"Come on!"

Intense shouts of killing sounded.

On the stone wall of the blood-stained fortress.

Hodt, who held a huge ax in his hand, was still killing tirelessly.

"boom!"

The blade of the giant ax was full of gaps, and its cutting ability was insufficient, but with its huge weight, it turned the head of an enemy who was about to climb up the stone wall into a watermelon with one axe.

The other party didn't come and screamed, and the red and yellow sprayed Hodt all over.

"325! 326! 327!"

"Ha! 328!"

Klein, the regiment leader next to him, held a long sword, and nimbly pierced into the fatal vitals of the enemy who wanted to climb the wall, while reporting his own number of kills.

It has reached more than 300 people.

The number of people Klein has killed in the past five years is not as many as these few days.

"retreat!"

"Woo~" Seeing the increasing number of casualties, the opponent's commander, a nobleman with the title of earl, gritted his teeth and ordered the attack to stop.

This masonry fortress numbered 58 survived another wave of attacks.

After the enemy retreated, Hodt, regiment commander Klein and others on the stone wall immediately dropped their weapons and sat on the wall, panting desperately.

"Old Huo, how many days have we persisted?" Klein asked.

"It's the tenth day, as long as today passes, we will persist until the tenth day!"

"How many brothers are left?"

"Less than 50 people, except for a few seriously wounded, there are only more than 30 people who can still fight!"

Speaking of this, Hodt said loudly: "Captain, don't hold on anymore! Just retreat tonight, look at the nearby fortresses, almost all of them have retreated except us! We are just mercenaries, don't put all your belongings in it !"

"What is our meritorious service now?" Klein asked.

"It's already broken 1. In the past few days, we have killed at least 2000 people, cut off more than 600 heads, and captured more than 40 prisoners with sound hands and feet. This adds up to 8000 merit points. The fort's 2000 meritorious rewards are enough to make up 1!" said Arnold on the side.

"Well!"

Klein nodded and said, "Take your head and all the prisoners with you tonight, and withdraw from the fortress!"

"But leader, we can't carry so many heads with more than 600 heads! Even if we do, we won't be able to move fast. Once we are overtaken by the patrolling cavalry from the Soliu Kingdom..." a team member said worriedly.

"If you don't bring your head, how can they count meritorious deeds for us? You must bring your head!"

Head = meritorious deeds, meritorious deeds will only be issued when you see the head, otherwise you will be empty-handed, no matter how many enemies you kill, the person in charge of counting meritorious deeds will not admit it.

Hodt hurriedly said: "Leader, let's hide our heads in one place first, retreat first, turn around and take out our heads again, it's the same... We still have more than a dozen injured brothers, they are more important than our heads! "

Klein still shook his head: "Either put your head on, or continue to defend, otherwise I don't feel relieved!"

He added: "And the offensive launched by that nobleman has weakened significantly in the past two days. I don't think he will launch a violent attack again. You all know the virtues of those noblemen. No matter how loyal they are to the king, they will not let their The knights and peasants are all dead."

"Captain!"

Hodt yelled: "We have been guarding for ten days, and we have completed the task long ago. The commission we got is enough for everyone to live for a few years. Don't guard anymore! We are all mud legs, we are not nobles life!"

"I know I know!"

Klein also yelled, and said with red eyes: "My father is a drunkard, my mother is a prostitute, I was born lowly, and I am a one-eyed cripple, so I cannot become a nobleman!"

"But how do you know if you don't try? How do you get it if you don't persist? I'm fed up with that kind of homeless life! I want to have a piece of land, I want to have a home!"

"I want you old bones to die on a warm bed!"

"Now, I see this hope, a hope that offers the best conditions and is most likely to be caught!"

"I'm going to catch it, I'm going to catch it!"

Klein clenched his fist and said, in that bloodshot right eye, apart from madness, there was also a palpitating power.

Everyone was silent.

Including a few young people who had just joined the regiment, they all bit their lower lip tightly and clenched the weapons in their hands.

From that day on, no one mentioned the retreat.

Only stand on the stone wall and fight more fiercely.

Each of them is like a wild beast, killing the enemy with fear.

"Mercenaries? Are they really mercenaries?" The earl in the enemy's face changed wildly, feeling unbelievable.

……

A month later.

The army of the Soliu Kingdom broke through the first line of defense.

In front of the second line of defense, there was more fierce resistance.

After paying nearly 10 casualties, there is still no breakthrough.

In addition, during the first line of defense, no less than 3 casualties were paid, and the Soliu Kingdom Army with a population of more than 50 actually lost nearly one-third.

And judging from the strength of the Yadude Kingdom's undiminished resistance, they obviously made sufficient preparations and did not allow the Soliu Kingdom to take advantage of it.

If the war continues, it will undoubtedly be a loss outweighing the gains for the Soliu Kingdom.

The high-level leaders of the Soliu Kingdom plan to send special envoys to discuss the peace talks between the two countries.

End this war that consumes the national power of both countries.

however.

After entering September.

To be precise, it was September 9th.

For the Soliu Kingdom, the battle situation suddenly took a turn for the worse!

A 10 elite army of the Yadude Kingdom, mostly cavalry, suddenly appeared behind the Soliu Kingdom's army, lined up in a dense formation, and launched a charge called "Reaper's Harvest".

In the depths of the nearly 40-mile-long valley, the Suoliu Kingdom's army of nearly [-] people lost their helmets and armor under the impact of this wave of stabbing chrysanthemums, and suffered a crushing defeat!
The commander of the Soliu Kingdom even exclaimed: "Impossible, how is this possible? How could their cavalry appear behind us?"

Of course Zhou Ming would not tell him: under the day and night transportation of [-] Hercules transport planes, not to mention the fully armed cavalry, even [-] war horses can be airlifted to any place in Suoliu Kingdom in a month!
The war has progressed to this point, and there is no suspense about the outcome.

In the narrow and flat valley, under the "Guardian Wall", under the attack of [-] defenders and [-] cavalry.

The Western Region Legion of the Soliu Kingdom, which numbered more than 50, was wiped out.

Behead 20.

33 prisoners.

Self casualties are less than [-].

In the war that changed from defense to counterattack in the next three months, the army of the Yadude Kingdom went deeper into the Soliu Kingdom for eight hundred miles, captured more than 40 cities, and captured 22 earldoms... and fought in many battles. In the field battle, more than 10 Soliu Kingdom troops were wiped out.

The kingdom of Soliu is in turmoil.

King Weber sent six groups of special envoys to plead for peace, and even agreed to cede land and pay compensation.

Because several kingdoms around the Soliu Kingdom also launched an attack on the Soliu Kingdom at the same time...Through diplomatic mediation, these small countries have long agreed to act together with the Yadude Kingdom.

The Suoliu Kingdom, which has always been domineering and domineering, experienced the doomsday despair of fire on all sides and wolves running wild.

Six months after the war broke out, the two countries finally reached a settlement that ended the war.

The Soliu Kingdom suffered a disastrous defeat. In order to make the Yadude Kingdom retreat, not to mention the compensation of 100 million gold coins, it also ceded 18 earldoms in the western region, which accounted for about one-sixth of its territory.

The Yadude Kingdom won a complete victory, with a slight loss, not to mention expanding the kingdom's territory by a quarter, it also gained a population of nearly 500 million.

After the war ended, Zhou Ming began to feel extremely headache about the distribution and competition of spoils.

(End of this chapter)