total war rise of empire

Chapter 94 Battle Two

"I didn't expect that it was just a tentative attack, but it could achieve such great results. Although the church can knead many noble troops together, the gap with the centralized unified army is still obvious."

Lei Zihao frowned, put down the battle report in his hand, and took a sip of tea with a smile on his lips.

Lei Zihao dispatched the Lancers and the lightly armed Wei soldiers out. His original intention was to beat the crusaders to gain a little advantage. At the very least, it would be good to kill some Crusaders cannon fodder, and did not let them fight tough battles. mean.

However, the elite soldiers of Wei and the Lancers who went out accidentally discovered the crusaders' scattered and out of touch troops. After a round of ambushes and the charge of the Lancers, the army from the Bavarian Grand Duke was finished!

Because the Bavarian troops were too far away from their friendly troops, the Lancers let go of their hooves and chased them down, killing the fleeing Bavarian troops to the point where they had nowhere to go...

After clearing the battlefield, Lei Zihao's men were surprised to find that the troops they annihilated turned out to be one of the few main fighters in the Crusaders!
Of the thousands of Bavarian troops, only more than 1000 are temporary conscripts serving as handymen, and the rest are either archers or real Bavarian soldiers and warriors!

After the cavalry broke the Bavarian front, these real lord soldiers did not perform much better than the temporary conscripts. They lost their courage and showed their backs in front of the cavalry. No matter how brave the warrior was, he would instantly become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered !

For Lei Zihao, the result of the battle this time was undoubtedly a huge profit. After annihilating thousands of the main force of the Crusaders, there were only two-digit deaths on his own side!

Being able to achieve such a disparate casualty ratio has a lot to do with the fact that the Bavarians took the initiative to expose their weaknesses, exchanged long-range arms and hand-to-hand arms in a panic, and were rushed in by the Lancers!

The Bavarians, who were already on the march, did not have a reserve team to resist the cavalry attack like a mountain torrent. In the chaos, they could not list the infantry phalanx to resist the cavalry. In this way, they were rushed out of the chain effect by the Lancers and all collapsed ...

It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the Bavarians was not brought into play at all, and they lost their morale under the sudden impact of cavalry...

However, the defeat of the Bavarians aroused Alibach's anger and caution. The roving raiding troops could no longer find a chance to pick up the slack. As the Crusaders gradually approached, they withdrew from the Megara Fortress!

Lei Zihao is not greedy. He is already very satisfied if he can annihilate thousands of crusaders who can serve as the main force for nothing!
In the entire Crusade, there were no more than [-] troops like Bavarian warriors and archers!

In order to make a name for themselves, the nobles of the Grand Duke of Bavaria sent out real mercenaries and army soldiers, except for the temporary conscripts who needed to do miscellaneous work!
In Lei Zihao's eyes, this was just a surprise attack to take advantage, but for the Crusaders, it abruptly weakened the main battle force by a quarter!

Especially the archers, the Bavarian archers accounted for half of the crusaders' archers!

Who told the noble lords to treat the crossbow troops as treasures one by one?
"Lei Zihao, you can obviously mobilize more elite troops to intercept and raid such a forcibly assembled army like the Crusaders, why is it just such a small matter?"

Li Qingmei was puzzled.

"The commander-in-chief of the Crusaders is not an idiot. If you want to conduct a surprise attack to intercept, there will inevitably be a tough battle. At that time, the troops I sent will suffer countless casualties!"

"There's no one who can't die in a war. I think you think too much about the elite, and you don't want to lose them."

Li Qingmei pursed her lips and said, under Lei Zihao's command, only Princess Siris, who slept with him all day, dared to speak so bluntly to him...

"Indeed, I have the mind to reduce the damage of the elite as much as possible. How many people are there in the Crusaders? How many people do I have? I am already at an absolute disadvantage. If I lose the elite for the sake of cheapness, how can I waste my time?" A big crusader?
What's more, the surprise ambush has too many uncertainties. I can't rely on my life on the stupidity of the enemy generals. I'm not in a desperate situation.

It is tempting to win more with less, but the possibility of failure is also greatly increased!

Instead of fighting for this probability, I might as well stick to the city of Megara and rely on the city defense to kill and injure the Crusaders in large numbers. Although the Crusaders have ten times the strength of ours, but with the city defense of Megara, and the city With the united people of Seris and tens of thousands of Pylos captives, our chances of winning are still very high, at least, it is safer than going out of the city to carry out a surprise attack and ambush!

Mei'er, you should have experienced the battle of defending the capital of the Kingdom of Siris, don't you know the casualty ratio between the attacking and defending sides? "

When Li Qingmei heard this, her expression became sad: "You don't understand, the orc army is different from the human army, because orcs are not afraid!

It is true that the half-orcs who once attacked the capital of the Seris Kingdom paid a huge price, but can you imagine an attacking army that never retreated from the beginning to the end?
In fact, apart from the large number of casualties caused to the orcs at the beginning, after the orcs attacked the city wall, our army only relied on life. No matter how many people were killed, the battle seemed to be unstoppable, and victory was so far away. The capital of the Seris Kingdom was actually crushed by despair..."

"Oh? Then I'm glad that what we are facing now is not a lunatic half-orc, but a human crusader." Lei Zihao smacked his lips and said indifferently.

In Lei Zihao's eyes, no matter how strong the half-orc army is, it has become a thing of the past. The half-orcs in the Balkans have been wiped out by the night elf empire. The real orc empire is far away on the western continent of Kalimdor. I'm afraid Lei Zihao It is very likely that I will never meet a half-orc as an enemy in this life...

As for why the strength of the Beastman Empire has declined so much, Lei Zihao has no way of knowing the source of the information, and he doesn't have the heart to delve into it. He is already busy enough with his affairs!

"Mei'er, use more force on the left side." Lei Zihao, who closed his eyes and enjoyed Li Qingmei's massage, said heartlessly.

Li Qingmei, who had been pinching Lei Zihao for a long time, immediately complained: "Lei Zihao, why do you insist on letting me give you a massage? You are addicted to bullying me!"

"Because Mei'er, you smell delicious, and your palms are still smooth and smooth, so it's very comfortable to rub!"

"Lei Zihao! Can you be more careful with your words? Don't always be so explicit!!!"

(End of this chapter)