Chapter 1006, Fishing Wild!
Chapter 1005: Fishing wild!
The old world, the east side of Foltendorf, the important town of Ostermark, the ferry,
Fifty thousand White Guards gathered here.
Fortandorf is an important town in the north of Ostermark. Even after the defeat of Zan'ek's Tzeentch Legion and Festus' Nurgle Legion, there are still thousands of imperial troops stationed here.
The Supreme Command of the White Guards also had this idea in choosing the ferry not far from Fortandorf, that is, it could rely on the imperial army.
Now, the army camped on a river bank upstream of Fortandorf, and established two logistics bases. On the night of April 20, the White Guards began to cut down the nearby black forest, build pontoon bridges and build rafts, ready to cross the Upper Talabek River.
On the other side of the river is Lachhov, the former southern town of Kislev, which was occupied by the Chaos army and is facing the White Guards across the river.
The camp was chaotic and disorderly. Whether it was Katarin or the newly promoted White Guard officers, they were not skilled enough to command such things. The female tsarist roughly divided the entire White Army into ten parts. , except for the Romanov Guards led by her personally, all the remaining White Army participated in the team of felling trees, transporting wood, building and manufacturing pontoon bridges. And making rafts was slow, and quarreling over frequent duplication of work.
This is actually a very low-level mistake. If it is replaced by Ryan to command, the King of Knights will let the soldiers work on the assembly line, who will be responsible for felling, who will be responsible for transportation, and who will be responsible for building, and the specific contracted areas will be shared wherever they are. It is clear, and Ryan often stipulates that the part that is done quickly will be rewarded and food rewarded, so the Britannian army is faster in military work.
And Katarin obviously didn't have the talent in this area, so she could only send the supervising army to urge them, and at the same time waited impatiently for the pontoon bridge to be built in the big tent.
The camp is in chaos, and Katarin's heart is also in chaos. According to the report from the scouts, just across the river, Zanek's army is gathering. The army of Tzeentch's God-Chosen Champion is indeed not that many. .
However, after going through a series of wars, Katarin has learned a little lesson. She knows that the White Guard army lacks training, nutrition, and poor military discipline. Basically, it can only fight with the wind, so she still hopes that the sooner the better, It is best to build a pontoon bridge and cross the river immediately, catching the assembled Chaos army by surprise, and relying on the numerical advantage to win quickly.
This was the campaign plan of the White Supreme Command.
After a few minutes,
Grand Marshal Denikin walked in: "Your Majesty, can you rest for a while? We are responsible for the outside affairs."
"How's the progress?" Katarin's mind was not on sleep at all, she urged: "We must hurry up, we can't let the Chaos bastards quickly assemble the army."
"It is estimated that three pontoon bridges should be repaired tomorrow morning." Denikin said to Katarin: "It was originally planned to repair five bridges, but judging from the current progress, it is very difficult to complete."
"Tomorrow morning?" Katarin thought for a while, and immediately said: "Then tomorrow morning, I will personally lead the Old Guards to cross the river first, and praise Ike and his army for a surprise attack!"
"This..." Grand Marshal Denikin wanted to dissuade him at first, but he quickly understood the reason for Katarin's actions. After thinking about it, he gave up continuing to persuade her.
"I heard from Cheka and the others that his old guards look down on the whole world. When the tricolor flag and bearskin hat appear on the battlefield, whether it is the Beastmen, Greenskins or Chaos Army will subconsciously shake, Retreat in fear." Katarin saw Denikin's hesitation, and she said unwillingly: "But even his Ryan's old guards were fought one by one? I also have old guards Army, my Old Guard Army will also be led by me personally to show off the old world!"
"Yes! I, Denikin, will cross the river with His Majesty tomorrow and witness the first victory of His Majesty's Old Guard!"
"Very good! As soon as the sun begins to rise tomorrow morning, the whole army will immediately start crossing the river!"
"yes!"
Things settled down.
Early the next morning, Katarin personally led the Romanov Guards to take the lead and began to cross the river.
The temporary pontoon bridge was shaky and not very stable. However, the combat effectiveness of the Chaos army was indeed poor. A small number of Chaos stragglers on the other side tried to launch several attacks on the pontoon bridge, but they were all attacked by Madam Keesler's bow and arrows and a few artillery pieces. rout.
In the afternoon, about 10,000 white vanguard troops successfully crossed the upper Talabek River on the pontoon bridge and came to the other side of the river.
The other side of the river is already a mess. It has been ravaged by the Chaos army many times. The town is already in ruins and debris. There are tents, ruins and loot piled up by the barbarians everywhere.
There are barbarian tents gathering everywhere near Rakhov. There are a lot of them, but they are also very messy. The level of these barbarian troops is really not flattering. Most people are really just watching! They didn't do anything, and after Mrs. Kisler rushed over, this group of less than a thousand people quickly became chaotic. Most of these barbarians didn't even wear armor, and many of them only had a sword in their hands. , an ax or a knife! They are already shaking!
The core reason is that the Romanov Guards who rushed to the front had exactly the same bearskin hats as the Ryan Old Guards and the standard equipment they got from Nur, which misunderstood the group of barbarians. It is really difficult for the barbarians to discern the difference in some details.
Someone charged towards Long Live the White Army with two axes from somewhere: "For Chaos!"
Some grabbed their trophies and ran away: "The Nanxie is coming! Run away!"
Some threw down the bowl and fled in a hurry after eating half of it: "I won't fight anymore, I want to go home!"
The mob was in a panic, nearly half of them fled watching the wind, while the other half took up weapons and rushed towards the white army in groups of three or four!
"Array!!!" Semyonov, commander of the Romanov Guards, shouted loudly: "Get ready, meet the enemy!"
The guards were a little shaken when they saw the ferocious appearance of the barbarians, and the team began to become scattered. In an instant, more than 3,000 of the original 5,000-strong army retreated desperately, and less than 2,000 people lined up to meet the enemy.
And what about the rest of the White Army?
These soldiers were very brave and worked very hard. However, at the moment when the two sides fought hand-to-hand, these tired soldiers who used inferior weapons and repaired the pontoon bridge all night were almost completely defeated after only a few minutes of hand-to-hand combat. Escape from where the boardwalk is! The entire battlefield instantly became chaotic!
The 20,000 white guards showed a tendency to be defeated almost instantly! They were chased and beaten by hundreds of barbarian warriors!
"Reload! Reload!!!" Katarin yelled angrily on a white horse. She waved her whip and shouted at her guards: "Romanov warriors, my Old guards! Are your spears broken? Are your swords curled? And are your muskets just for display?!"
After finishing speaking, Katarin drew out her rune sword—the soul of Soika: "The descendants of Queen Miska, the successors of Kislev Ice and Snow, my old guards, I use Romano In the name of the tsar of the husband's family, I call you, attack! Drive these barbarians from our land, our homeland!"
The empress herself made a speech before the battle, which greatly inspired the morale of the army, especially the Romanov Guards. Hearing Katarin's voice, the morale of the Romanov Guards recovered slightly and did not continue to waver. The Guards soldiers who were still standing still began to reload and rearrange.
Seeing this, Katarin breathed a sigh of relief, and the female tsarina couldn't help but feel a little proud.
She copied this trick from Ryan. According to the large amount of information about Ryan she obtained after arriving in Beccafin, the knight boy... cough cough, the King of Knights personally appeared in front of the soldiers every battle to encourage them Morale, and give a speech, his invincible old guards will burst out with the greatest loyalty and combat effectiveness, sweeping away all powerful enemies like a storm! Never fail! Crush everything!
Understood, just copy it and you're done. As long as you, Ryan, can give speeches and boost morale, I, Katalin, can't?
Kill the Old Guard!
It has to be said that Katarin has also learned some lessons from the Ice Palace Guards. After the formation of the Romanov Guards, Katarin took some care and trained them many times. A certain number of live ammunition shooting training.
The musketeers took out the small cloth bag from the small bag, ripped open the opening with their teeth, spilled a little of the gunpowder inside and poured it on the powder pool at the back of the musket, and then stuffed the remaining gunpowder and the bullets inside into the muzzle of the musket , stuff it to the bottom, lift it up, aim it at the enemy, and pull the trigger.
"Boom! Boom boom boom!"
Nur's standard equipment is the best quality weaponry in the human kingdom of the old world, and it is also the same on muskets. When a volley was fired, hundreds of barbarians were knocked down on the spot, and the rest fought hand-to-hand with the guards.
At the beginning, the Romanov Guards were beaten back steadily by the barbarians who only wore trousers and slashed and killed with weapons. However, everyone soon discovered that the low-quality weapons of the barbarians could not cut through their shields. Breastplate and armguards! You can only leave a mark on it! And Nur's weapon can easily tear apart the flesh and blood of these stragglers!
understood! Now go face to face with the barbarians!
The Romanov Guards withstood the wave for a while, and Katarin shouted desperately, telling the soldiers to come back and regroup, while the White Army saw that the barbarians were defeated, and all fled to the place where the pontoon bridge was. , finally started to gather again, the whole battlefield was in a mess, and the White Guard probably took more than two hours to regroup the army.
So what is Zanek doing at this time?
"Go up! Go up! Go up for me!" Tzeentch's God's Chosen Champion also roared hoarsely, urging them to flee in all directions. The panic-stricken barbarian soldiers rushed up. The enemy was gathering troops. What a great opportunity!
However, Tzeentch's choice of the champion is useless, because his previous disastrous defeat in Bekafin has made the barbarians no longer trust him. Most of the elite troops were either wiped out under the city of Bekafin, or they have already withdrawn to the north. In the wasteland, most of the remaining barbarian warriors are trash or opportunists. No matter how hard Zaneike tries, the tide of defeat can hardly be stopped. More than 3,000 have been paid, and the rest are also shaking and going to collapse.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Zan Aike, who seemed extremely angry, finally used extreme means to maintain the front line. He summoned a wall of fire that stretched for hundreds of meters! All the barbarians who tried to retreat were stopped, and any barbarian warrior who tried to touch the fire wall would be burned to ashes by Tzeentch's colorful flames. More barbarians died in the flames than were killed by the white army!
Through this method, Zan Aike finally maintained the front line, but at this time nearly two hours had passed, and the White Guards finally regrouped under the command of Katarin and the generals, arrayed, and moved towards Lahe Hoff over here!
Both sides are in a state of unstable morale. The white army is biting the bullet and barely advancing amidst the whips of the supervisor team and the scolding of the female tsarina, and Zan Aike's army has to rely on his continuous release of spells to block the retreat. Only barely maintained the battle line!
The two sides confronted each other head-on again. It looked like a fierce battle was fought on the ruins of Rakhov. In fact, only one or two thousand people who rushed to the front were fighting, and the chaotic barbarians were at a loss when facing the advancing White Army. .
Looking at this scene, Zan Aike sighed in his heart, thinking that he should follow the plan.
"Blizzard!" Katarin unleashed a blizzard, and the female czar cast spells continuously under the protection of the ice and snow guards. She waved her staff: "Ice element!"
A dozen ice elementals appeared in the Upper Talabek River, which was floating with a large amount of crushed ice. They formed human shapes, rushed up the river bank, and rushed towards the barbarian army.
"Circle of ice!" The female tsar released the second spell. The entire circle froze hundreds of barbarian warriors on the ground, and many barbarians were frozen to pieces on the spot.
"Demon invasion!" Zan'ek was not to be outdone, and the champion of Tzeentch's God's Choice immediately summoned a small army of Tzeentch demons to fight with the ice elementals summoned by Katarin. With one hand, he was writing frantically and quickly in the Great Book of Tzeentch, and soon, the circle of ice was cracked by Zanek, the spell disappeared on the spot, and the trapped barbarians were rescued.
The morale of the White Guards was suddenly shaken, and the invincible ice magic actually failed!
However, Zanek's actions of summoning the Chaos Demon and cracking the ice magic seemed to distract him. Just as he was casting the spell, the wall of fire that was used to forcefully stop the rout of the barbarian army suddenly disappeared.
"The wall of fire is gone! The wall of fire is gone!" Someone shouted among the barbarians: "The wall of fire is gone!"
"Retreat! There are too many enemies!"
"We failed!"
The morale of the barbarian army collapsed again, and Zan'ek's army was defeated. They fled in all directions, were driven out of Rakhov, and fled towards the north. The army retreated under coercion.
Finally, Katharin's White Guard successfully occupied Rakhov. The soldiers shouted victory while their military discipline was broken. Facing the camp left by the barbarians and a large amount of spoils, people put the victory behind them and started to go around desperately. Searching for possible captures and trophies, the entire ruins are full of scattered White Army soldiers. The 20,000 White Army is now as disorganized as the fine sand on the coast.
Meanwhile, just east of Lachhof, in the middle of a small taiga.
Kurgan Khan Subutai-Canglang's more than a thousand cavalry are hiding here. The Khan carefully observed the battle situation and couldn't help nodding: "The stragglers under Zan Aike are just that useful. ,very good."
"There are a lot of Ross people. If we attack head-on, one of our sabers will have to deal with ten of the enemy's swords. In this way, we must fight to the death and cannot win." Subotai then said to the Kurgan champions near him: "But Now, we only need to concentrate on attacking the opponent's central army, and our one saber only needs to deal with the enemy's two weapons!"
Just when the Kurgan cavalry was getting ready, seven or eight barges loaded with heavy objects and explosive barrels suddenly appeared on the upper reaches of the Upper Talabek River. Angle, down the current, rushing towards the pontoon bridge that Mrs. Keesler finally built with great speed!
General Baghramyan, who was in charge of staying behind, was shocked when he saw this scene, but these barges could no longer be stopped!
"Boom!" The barge instantly destroyed three pontoon bridges, and with the sound of an explosion, the White Guard's retreat was cut off.
Seeing this scene, Kurgan Khan nodded slowly, and the silver-topped white-tasseled helmet flashed along with his movements.
"Today, I, Canglang Subutai, will either die in this extreme western land and let future generations avenge me, or I will slaughter all these Ross people, so that people here will always remember my name!" He drew his own golden knife: "Let us, like a steel knife, pierce the enemy's heart!"
"Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!" There was no need to hide, the Kurgan cavalry came out of the forest!
"Descendants of Emperor Kurgan! Sons and daughters of the grassland! The blessings of the Changshengtian will accompany you forever! The time has come for you to show your glory!" One finger: "Charge!"
"Kill!"
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