Realm of Power

Looking at the brutal siege battle ahead, the disdain at the corner of Prince Albert's mouth solidified. Even the expressions of the soldiers of the Albert Army gathered below also changed a little. More than half of them were killed and wounded in the battle, and the remaining people were supporting each other one by one. , fresh underfoot The red human blood dyed most of the stone wall red like seeping water. His face was stained with blood but his eyes were still shining. The armor on his body was shattered. There were many gaps in the sword in his hand. But this kind of opponent could not attack the city from the beginning. Arrive now Now, they have been tenaciously controlling the city wall for more than an hour. The corpses under the fortress have been piled up to the height of a person's waist. The four thousand-man squadrons have taken turns to be stained with blood. The two thousand-man captains who led the attack were injured and carried back. , until now, no one has boarded the battlements stained red with human blood. Prince Albert is riding on a war horse, staring at the siege battle ahead with a serious expression. When did the Hokuriku noble army become like this? Stronger?

"Damn it, if this is the true strength of the Hokuriku Noble Army, then how did the Imperial Army destroy the entire main force of the Hokuriku Noble Army in one battle in the Roston area?"

Prince Albert heard a low discussion from his subordinates behind him. There were only three or four thousand Geng Di troops, but it actually shook the morale of his tens of thousands of troops. This made Prince Albert's face turn livid. How could a situation that was almost certain to change change? If the news spreads that tens of thousands of troops attacked three to four thousand Hokuriku nobles and paid a heavy price in the end, not only will the reputation that I have built up with great difficulty collapse in an instant, but the Hokuriku families will also become more determined. Determination to fight on

"Come here, tell the front. I'll give them another half hour. If they still can't board the battlements, all officers below the squadron commander will be treated as slack in combat." How could Prince Albert watch such a thing happen? He turned to the man behind him. The messenger cavalry shouted sternly, and the messenger galloped away, and the offensive in front was fierce again. Come on, in Fezer's military regulations, slackness in combat is even more serious than incompetence in combat. In serious cases, he may even be ordered to be beheaded, with a flagpole hung over his head to frighten the troops. When he heard such an order, Albert The captain-level officers in the army dared to wait and see below, and immediately organized death squads to attack again.

"Fight!" Soldiers of the Geng Di Army kept shouting and rolled down the city wall with the attackers in their arms. However, facing the overwhelming crowd of Albert's troops, the Geng Di Army's defense line finally fell after an hour and nine minutes of fierce fighting. The special forces swarmed up the city wall. In fact, under the repeated attacks of Albert's army, Geng Di's army was exhausted. At the forty-seventh minute of the fierce battle, Grand Duke Geng Di died due to being wounded in the body. Three arrows died in the battle, and the adjutant Kiya took over the command. At the fifty-seventh minute, the adjutant Kiya was shot to death by random arrows again. The soldiers were completely fighting on their own. Finally, all the Gengdi Army soldiers gathered in the city. According to the order of the adjutant Kia before his death, the long wooden bar behind the fortress gate was moved. A dozen or so people made a sudden force and saw the fortress gate open from the inside with a rattling sound.

"The fortress gate is open"

"Finally got it!"

A smile finally appeared on Prince Albert's lips. He mistakenly believed that the person who opened the fortress gate was the Albert army who had invaded the city. He was even more excited. He killed Geng Di's army and there was no one left in Beilu to follow. It is possible to compete by oneself, and it is easy to As soon as the news spread that the main force of the Hokuriku noble army was annihilated on the west coast, the resistance of the entire Hokuriku would collapse in an instant. Geng Di's desperate attempt to give the entire Hokuriku group the last shot in the arm was not only useless. Meaningful, and utterly stupid,

"Come on!"

"Hokuriku, Hokuriku is ours." The excited shouts of the Albert Army under the city came one after another, and the infantry groups swarmed in, so that no one noticed that the soldiers of the Albert Army rushed to the battlements one by one. With a frightened expression on his face, a squadron leader stumbled back with his face covered in dust and panic, but tripped over a stone on the ground and fell to the ground in a helter-skelter manner, causing the people below to burst into laughter. But soon, they couldn't laugh anymore. They saw the squadron leader raising his head, waving his arms violently at the battlement, and screaming like tearing the air with a voice that was too shrill to be human, "Quickly disperse." Come on, let’s go! The black tide is coming!”

"Kuroshio?"

Prince Albert's expression paused, and his eyes were filled with surprise and horror.

The Albert Army soldiers near the fortress gate suddenly began to become chaotic. They turned around and ran back like crazy, as if there was a beast chasing behind them, and the shouts from their mouths were also "Run!" Seeing this scene, the Albert army behind was stunned, and the people on the city wall Crazy, why are the people at the gate of the fortress also crazy? Could it be that Geng Dijun is here? What was temporarily arranged in the fortress? With this idea, the Albert Army soldiers stopped in their tracks and stretched their necks towards the open fortress gate curiously, wanting to see what was inside the gate. "Is this an illusion? Why do I feel like the ground is shaking!"

An Ebert soldier lowered his head and looked at his feet, and then he heard a rumbling low sound. It was not obvious at first, vague, but it was only a few seconds. This weird sound quickly It expanded into a rolling sound of muffled thunder. At the fortress gate, a black rolling dragon violently charged out. In just a few seconds, the horrifying cry enveloped the surroundings. The ferocious cry of "kill", the horse in black armor, and the cavalry in black armor on top. , the shining sword is already in front of you! There was a sound of a sharp weapon slashing at a person's body, and the shield was directly knocked away together with the person behind it, causing a terrifying line of blood to flow. "Is this the Imperial Cavalry?"

Prince Albert's eyes were fixed on the shock cavalry who were slashing and killing in his own troops. He watched the tens of thousands of troops approaching the fortress being torn apart alive. His whole person was sluggish and miserable. Shouting, the cavalry group that hit like a hurricane has mercilessly crashed into the crowd of Albert's army, slashing and killing, and the crowds are surging. Moving, the shining imperial sword rolled up like a metal tide. The unsuspecting Albert Army was hit hard on the delicate face by a sharp thorn, unable to react at all. , this imperial cavalry appeared so suddenly, Albert's army was completely unprepared, and the place where the horse was involved screamed like a pig being slaughtered.

Why is there an imperial army behind Geng Di's army? This is a fact that completely violates logic. Not to mention the unprepared Prince Albert, even later military scientists cannot understand when Duke Gengdy, the commander of the Hokuriku noble army, and the imperial army An agreement was reached. This was an unsolvable mystery in the history of war in the early days of the empire. It was given the exclusive name "counterattack" by later generations of military scientists.

But for Albert's army who was still on the fortress wall, they felt desperate at this moment.

Kuroshio! Right in front of you, the rolling imperial army advancing in a strict battle formation marched towards the fortress in a dense formation. The infantry regiment looked stern, and the dark infantry formation was like a forest. The end could not be seen at a glance. From the gate of the fortress The imperial cavalry that rushed out from the position were just the vanguard of this huge team, and the rear teams were still pouring out. The thick black armor of the imperial army was as majestic as a mountain and as mighty as the sea. The faces of the Albert Army soldiers were as pale as paper. They saw the crossbow shooters in the imperial infantry group below stopped and followed an order. He raised his crossbow in the direction of the fortress. "The opponent's cavalry is not large in number. Pass my order and the whole army encircles and eats this imperial cavalry!"

The situation of the battle suddenly changed. Prince Albert suppressed the shock in his heart and said through gritted teeth with a livid face. However, just as his order was conveyed, he saw his own soldiers running for their lives above the fortress, seemingly being struck by a pair of invisible hands. There was a general push from behind, and some soldiers even jumped down from the thirty-meter-high fortress crenellations in fear, "What's going on?"

Prince Albert's eyes widened violently, and he was overwhelmed by a heavy, extremely terrible premonition. The generals behind them also closed their mouths tightly. In the heavy silence, there were only two words "black tide" swirling in everyone's minds at this moment. What was the "black tide" shouted by the officer who was so panicked that he fell down? A burst of echoing sounds came from the direction of the fortress, and an overwhelming black cover covered the sky above the fortress. There were so many that it almost covered the sky. Black tide! It’s really here! The target of these arrow clusters is the fortress wall. It is no wonder that the people above are panicking and jumping over the wall.

If he had not jumped, he would have been shot through by random arrows. On the contrary, if he jumped, he would still have a chance of survival. Although the height of the wall was thirty meters, the corpses piled under the wall were more than half a meter high, showing a A pile that expands outwards. Even if a person falls on it, there will be no serious harm. "How many imperial troops are here!"

Everyone swallowed dryly with dry mouth and tongue. Such a large-scale coverage shooting would probably not be possible without twenty or thirty thousand shooters. Prince Albert even almost bit his own tongue. Geng Dijun was using his own As a bait, he had to drag himself even if he risked his life, just to let the imperial army bite him! "Quickly, withdraw our people" "Look, God!"

Suddenly there was a sound of exclamation again, and countless black-armored warriors appeared on the empty fortress wall, and a falcon flag with teeth and claws was raised high, "Imperial Army, Imperial Army!"

The Albert Army below suddenly exploded. The 200,000 Fezer Royal Army was wiped out by the Imperial Army in one battle. These Fezer Guards really had a psychological shadow on the Imperial Army. How powerful the Royal Army was back then. , even if they were destroyed in one battle, what do they think now! Moreover, the number of imperial troops in front of you is even more astonishing. Groups of imperial infantry are like an endless stream of long dragons coming out of the fortress gate. At the position where the imperial cavalry was previously attacked, the scattered Albert army cannot gather troops at all. , came to withstand the strong pressure of the imperial infantry group, and now faced with the assault of the imperial heavy armored infantry, the blockade of Albert's army was riddled with holes in just the blink of an eye. "Kill!"

There was blood splashing under the feet of the Imperial heavy infantry. The Albert Army retreated step by step. It first came into contact with the Imperial Army and the 16th Regiment of the Albert Army. After a moment of contact, it quickly collapsed like a fortress made of sand. , the commander of the 16th Regiment ran back to Prince Albert in panic. Before he could get close, he was caught and beheaded by Albert's order. His bloody head was hung on the battle flag. "Don't retreat, stop them!"

The captain of the ninth regiment of Albert's army loudly encouraged the soldiers. He was greeted by thousands of long spiked spears as neat as brushes, with all the spear points forward. The Albert soldiers who were pushed to the front roared ferociously. Yelling, he threw himself forward and was pierced by countless spears. At this moment, the empire shot The hands have completely controlled the fortress wall at the commanding heights of the region. More than tens of thousands of imperial archers continued to launch arrow attacks at the Albert Army in front. Arrow clusters flew around like locusts, blood spattered, and the position of the ninth regiment, Like a thin layer of blood mist rising,

As the number of imperial troops on the opposite side continues to increase, 20,000, 30,000, 50,000, 60,000, and more, the direction of the fortress is like a bottomless pit. The black-armored imperial troops are still coming out. Albert's army The changes were also obvious. First there was an attempt to encircle, then there was a stalemate, then there was resistance, and finally the defeated Sergeant Albert's soldiers surged towards this side in a dark mass. Come on, anyone can feel that the situation of Albert's army is over. The poor defeated soldiers were charged by the black armored cavalry. They could not advance or retreat. They ran back and forth in panic. They were hacked to death in large areas. Their wails and screams were shocking. God, there is no thought of resistance at all. That kind of embarrassment and desolation is completely unlike the tiger-wolf division that was like a wolf and a tiger just a dozen days ago, which shocked the entire Hokuriku! "Let's go, let's evacuate immediately, otherwise, we will be involved too." "But just leave like this..." "What are you waiting for if you don't leave? Are you waiting here to die!"

The first to waver and evacuate were the scattered Hokuriku forces who had taken refuge. Although their combat capabilities were average, their years of dealing with the Hokuriku aristocratic army gave them keen awareness. They could sense the sudden appearance of enemies on the opposite side. It is a transcendent creature that far exceeds the combat power of Albert's army. , the troops under Prince Albert's command are also the foundation of the former Fezer Guards, but in front of the other party, they are completely slaughtered. Prince Albert uses wealth and land to win over them, but all this is based on this The premise that His Highness the Prince is about to become the Lord of the Hokuriku, but now, it is obviously impossible.

They have no intention of being buried with His Highness the Prince!