Chapter 24 Defensive Counterattack

The effect of the smoke screen was very good. The large area of ​​​​smoke screen obscured the rear sight. Matsumoto Masako temporarily lost the ability to command the battlefield, and this period was the time for us to play our part.

"Open the gates one to twenty." My voice was conveyed from the leaves of the city tree to the city tree itself, and the city tree responded to my order instantly.

On the bottom floor of Essinger facing the RB player, twenty huge armor blocks suddenly began to sink into the city amidst a burst of metal friction sounds on the city wall. Each of these armor blocks is about 200 meters wide and almost 30 meters high. The armor plate sank inward slowly at first. When the sinking distance reached three meters, the armor plate stopped with a bang, but soon it began to move sideways again. Each armor plate was separated from the middle and then retreated to both sides into the city wall. As the armor plates moved to both sides, the RB players outside discovered that there was actually another armor plate behind the first layer of armor, but at this time they were moving upwards. Separate downwards. The four armor plates were usually stacked together in a criss-cross pattern to seal the large hole in the city wall, but now they all made way on their own.

After the armor was removed, twenty rectangular exits appeared on the city wall. From the outside, you could clearly see a black line inside the exits. After using binoculars, the frontline commanders in the rb army's vanguard discovered that the black line was actually a dense heavy cavalry formation. However, because the rb player's position was more than four hundred meters shorter than the middle section of Essinger's city wall, other than They couldn't see how many people were behind the first row of cavalry.

The opened passage was originally located in the middle of the city wall on the base level of Essinger, which means it is about two hundred meters away from the bottom of the city. However, Essinger is now moving, with all the crawler propellers underneath stretched out. It is not the city. The base is in direct contact with the ground, so these exits are at least four hundred meters above the ground. When the exit was fully opened, metal plates as wide as the exit stretched out from the city. These metal plates stretched out horizontally instead of downwards. At first, rb thought that these long metal plates were springboards designed for the cavalry to leave the city, but when he saw them stretched out horizontally, he felt something was wrong.

The metal plate stretched out for about five hundred meters, then stopped. During the rotation of mechanical gears, these long metal plates began to tilt downward, obviously preparing to touch the ground. RB people were wondering why these things were sticking out horizontally just now, but now they all understand. This is because the mechanical structure is inconvenient to extend directly downwards, which takes up more space. Unlike this, it can be stored in the floor mezzanine to save space. The extension of the huge metal plate dropped more than 200 meters and then suddenly stopped. If the city had stopped on the ground, it should have touched the ground by this time, but at this time, the city's tracks were all unfolded, so the flat plate Didn't hit the ground.

Just when the rb players were about to laugh at our mistake, a slight mechanical sound suddenly sounded on the metal plate, and then thousands of positioning locks on the side of the springboard automatically popped open. The entire bottom half of the springboard slid down quickly with a bang. With a shovel sound, it dug into the soil more than one meter deep. It turns out that this springboard actually has two layers, which are usually stuck together like two pieces of paper. There are slide rails connecting the two levels. As long as the fixed lock is opened, the lower level of the springboard will slide out immediately due to the inclination of the springboard. This two-stage design is designed to take into account the two states of the Essinger crawler machine, open and closed, if the crawler track is not deployed. Then only one springboard is needed to reach the ground. If the tracks extend out, loosen the fixed lock and let the second springboard slide out, so that it can just touch the ground.

In fact, in addition to the springboard, this huge military platform also serves as a temporary airport. Our guild has a lot of air cavalry, and their takeoffs and landings are fine in normal times, but if a sudden deployment is needed on the battlefield, the top airport will be a little busy. Each of Essinger's three main floors has a large flat roof, but the top of the basic floor is full of weapons, which is simply an artillery position. The top of the middle floor is the airport, but the area is not very large, and it is obviously a bit crowded with so many things taking off and landing. The top platform itself is the smallest, and it is occupied by several large special buildings in the command level and guild. It is really not suitable for an airport. If these twenty exits are extended horizontally with springboards without releasing them, it will be equivalent to a platform, which can be used as an airport. Anyway, the width of 200 meters is large enough for all kinds of flying creatures. , does not affect their landing at all.

Although they have many functions, these metal plates currently perform their most important task as a springboard for the army to leave the city. Masamoto Matsumoto was rushing forward in a hurry, trying to get through the smoke screen to see clearly what the situation on the battlefield was like. But he was a bit far away from the front of the battlefield. I can't get over it for a while. All the millions of troops were thrown away. A skirmishing formation was also used, and the formation stretched for more than ten kilometers. This is because the front width is relatively large. As the commander-in-chief, Masamoto Matsumoto was understandably squatting at the end of the formation to hold down the formation, but now that he was blinded by the smoke screen, he was really doing his own thing.

Masamoto Matsumoto hadn't come over yet, and the Japanese troops in front had not received new orders and were still rushing forward quickly. Essinger's weapons also have shooting blind spots. As long as they rush to the city, they can start to think of ways to rush into the city to fight. This is the idea of ​​​​RB people. Masa Matsumoto and even the entire RB players have always known very clearly that our guild's magic and gunpowder weapons are notoriously cruel. They are not only powerful and dense in firepower, but also large in quantity and high in accuracy. For RB players, as long as they rush to Essinger, they can start hand-to-hand combat. At this time, the advantage of our guild will no longer exist. Because of this knowledge, RB players without new orders began to rush toward Essinger at high speed with a large number of NPCs around them.

When this man moved forward bravely, Essinger's cavalry springboard had been fully deployed. The second-level springboard that had just slid down was deeply inserted into the ground. However, because Essinger was moving, the springboard was quickly pulled out, but this did not affect its function. There was a row of small springboards under the springboard where it touched the ground. Small metal wheels, they reduce friction between the ground and the springboard allowing the city to move while releasing troops.

"Impact." Eagle stood in front of the exit and acted as the cavalry vanguard. This time he planned to serve as on-site command. After all, there are not many genuine knights in our guild.

Following Eagle's order, the first row of cavalry rushed down from the springboard like a flood. Twenty huge springboards 200 meters wide are a very wide impact plane. Once the heavy cavalry obtains enough impact surface and sufficient speed. Their lethality would be unimaginable. These springboards are all directly connected to the ground from the exits on the city wall. This large inclination angle is the best place for the cavalry to accelerate. The heavy cavalry almost relied on gravity to help accelerate. The heavy cavalry troops rushed down the springboard with the thunderous sound of hooves, and the ground rumbled as soon as they touched the ground. Fortunately, the springboard was designed to be thicker and used magic reinforcement technology, otherwise it would have been broken by so many cavalry running over it.

The rb players were charging. Although they saw the cavalry, they did not dare to change their formation without orders. On the battlefield, only a commander who has an overview of the overall situation can make the most appropriate judgment. Although it is sometimes important for soldiers to adapt to the situation, it is absolutely not recommended for soldiers to change their tactics on their own. Now, although rb players know that a large number of infantry are at a disadvantage when using a skirmish formation to defend the heavy cavalry that has reached its peak speed, they just don't dare to change the formation casually.

Masamoto Matsumoto was relatively lucky. He finally got through the smoke screen and saw the situation on the battlefield before the battlefield situation changed. But he was unfortunate because he saw it too late. Masamoto Matsumoto, who had just passed through the smoke screen, knew it was over when he saw Essinger in front of him releasing twenty groups of heavy cavalry like opening a floodgate to release water. The terrifying cavalry vanguard was already less than ten meters away from the Japanese vanguard. This kind of There is a saying among the cavalry: "It shocks one second." The reason for this saying is because a heavy cavalry at full speed can rush over ten meters in less than one second. And because this distance is very close, if the enemy's soldiers in the front row have poor psychological quality, they will often become distracted and faint at this second.

There is no need to laugh at those who fainted or peed their pants at this moment, because in front of such a heavy cavalry formation, people's heartbeats would instinctively accelerate and lead to physiological disorders. Masamoto Matsumoto saw with his own eyes many people who were once arrogant and confident in their bravery were so frightened that they called their mothers in front of the cavalry formation. Moreover, some players' investigation reports on the forum also said that the cavalry formation and the infantry formation came into contact for a moment. Most of the infantry were in an unconscious state, which meant that most of them were actually fainted at the time, but their bodies were still standing there due to stiffness.

Masamoto Matsumoto has now experienced this scene again, but what makes him very sad is that it was his army that was stepped on. The battlefield seemed to turn into a silent world for a second before the two armies came into contact. Everyone felt that the situation in front of them had turned into a slow motion, and when the cavalry and the charging players collided, the battlefield seemed to suddenly return from a silent world to a noisy world. The sound of the impact of metal weapons, the screams of people and the ground, the cracking of bones, and the sound of muscles being torn, all mixed together are the sounds of the battlefield - the symphony of life.

Matsumoto Masako couldn't stand it anymore. Soldiers were knocked away one by one. The heavy cavalry, including men and horses, plus equipment, was five times the weight of the rb player, and the cavalry was six times the speed of the rb player, resulting in thirty times the kinetic energy. People here are easily carried away like weightless dust. The cavalry does not need to attack at all, their speed and weight are the best weapons. The enemies killed by the cavalry were either knocked to death or trampled to death, and there were not many times when weapons needed to be used.

Some RB players commanded the NPCs around them to form a temporary small defense circle, but this was of no use at all. The horses of these heavy cavalry have been trained. After seeing the enemy's defensive formation, their first reaction is to jump up and knock down the enemy with the weight of their bodies. These war horses are all covered with steel armor, and there is a shield-shaped all-steel thickened impact armor directly in front. This is a component that increases the impact when hitting someone. Now this thing is working very well.

Several rbnpc raised their shields to resist. The war horse jumped more than one meter high. Just when he stepped on the shield, the NPC screamed and was stepped down. The upper part of the body was supported by the people behind him, and his feet were supported on the ground. However, his waist could not bear the weight of a heavy cavalryman and his horse. There was only a crack of bones and the shield hand was stepped on and broken. The body is bent from the waist down to an angle that is usually unattainable. The war horse did not stop because of this. With thirty times the impact of the opponent, this impact was nothing. The war horse stepped on the people under its feet and continued to jump. The people below were immediately trampled to a bloody pulp. The RB player behind saw that the NPC could not stop the enemy and wanted to run away, but the war horse's iron hooves trampled him to the ground mercilessly. Regardless of whether he was still struggling on the ground, he continued to rush forward.

This player was not actually stepped on, he was just knocked over by the pedals of the knight on the war horse. He was crawling on the ground and trying to stand up, when suddenly a thick and powerful horse's hoof that was looking for a treadle stepped down and hit him on the back of his hand. There was a click and a ghostly howl, and the guy's hand turned into a meat pie. Before he could continue howling for long, a second horse hoof arrived, this time stepping on his waist. With the same click, a man immediately broke into two pieces and followed the horse's hind hooves to arrive. With one kick, he crushed this guy's head like a watermelon, spraying white and red all over the floor.

The thundering heavy cavalry group was advancing rapidly and forcefully, and the RB players finally collapsed. A large number of players and NPCs began to turn around and run back. Although this is a game, theoretically speaking, most people are not afraid of death, but the impact on the scene is so strong that people often cannot help but regard this as reality, and the survival instinct begins to make everyone run away.

RB's skirmishers are too sparse. Facing the impact of the heavy cavalry, this formation had no blocking effect. The cavalry rushed into the enemy's interior like cutting tofu. As the commander-in-chief of the cavalry, Ying felt that his army was in an uninhabited land, without any enemy that could constitute an obstacle. The feeling of being superior to others when riding a horse itself will produce a feeling of psychological expansion. This feeling will be transformed into self-confidence on the battlefield, and self-confidence is the source of momentum. It is said that cavalry is the nemesis of infantry. The fleeing infantry was unable to withstand the cavalry charge and was easily caught up and strangled.

Matsumoto Masaru was just a little slow, but he didn't expect that his army would turn from a charge to a collapse. Our army's assault capability is very strong, and Masamoto Matsumoto's brief mistake completely lost the initiative. This is a matter of timing on the battlefield.

Strictly speaking, Masamoto Matsumoto did not lose to himself and the army, but to the commander. The command and staff officer on our side is General Wu, and the command and staff officer on Masamoto Matsumoto's side is the retired staff officer from RB. Both sides are professional soldiers, but their grades are different. That RB staff officer was just an ordinary senior staff officer, not a very outstanding person in his own right. He was better than ordinary people, but he was not a great person either. General Wu is different. He can be regarded as the military god of our country. He is a victorious general who has fought countless victorious battles in his life. He is very different from ordinary staff officers.

General Wu has a very good command of the battlefield, and all our combat steps were directed by him. How long it takes to launch a counterattack after the smoke screen is fired, the intensity of the attack, and the location of the attack are all planned by General Wu. Now it seems that this simple combination of cavalry and smoke screens has completely transferred the initiative on the battlefield. Originally we were on the defensive side and the initiative was in the opponent's hands. Now it seems that we don't have to worry about not having the initiative at all.

The initiative on the battlefield is a good thing. The side with the initiative means that you can adjust the rhythm of the battlefield according to your own needs. You can fight when you're ready. Or attack suddenly when the enemy is busy. Therefore, the party with the initiative will have a great advantage. Now that we have the initiative, the next step is to take advantage of it.

General Wu and Sumei discussed for a long time and suddenly informed the cavalry to turn around. The rise of the eagle leading the charge to kill. Suddenly he received an order to turn around. Although He was very confused, he still retreated. I also felt strange about the general's order, but I didn't ask him what he meant. I am a layman in military command, so it would be better for professionals to handle this.

Ying led the heavy cavalry in a U-shaped impact, turned around halfway and rushed back. Almost as soon as our heavy cavalry turned around, a large number of RB cavalry suddenly rushed out from behind the smoke screen. It seems that General Wu's judgment is very correct. If Ying and the others had not turned around, they would have collided with the RB cavalry by now. Although the smoke screen blocks the sight of Japanese people, we are not affected. After all, reconnaissance mosquitoes are everywhere. General Wu just saw the mobilization of the Japanese cavalry in the rear, and later judged that the cavalry might have come to the front to deal with our heavy cavalry.

Speaking of which, our guild's heavy cavalry completely surpasses RB's heavy cavalry. Heavy cavalry is RB's weakness. Their heavy cavalry is ranked last in the world, but the turn just now is very necessary. Although our cavalry is not afraid of the Japanese cavalry, the opponent's army has too many people. If our cavalry is blocked, even if it only slows down. It will no longer have impact effect, and casualties will occur in large numbers thereafter. The goal of our cavalry is to deter the Japanese army from advancing, not to fight the Japanese. The only way to maximize our advantage is to turn around before there are a lot of casualties. Besides, our guild doesn’t have many soldiers available now, so we should use them sparingly.

Matsumoto Masaga may also be aware of our predicament. They used light cavalry to attack our heavy cavalry, and they did not hesitate to use a large number of cavalry to consume my remaining troops. This kind of exchanging people for people to send away Matsumoto Masaga, who has the superior force, is useful. Benefits. But we don’t want to trade with him. Seeing the heavy cavalry suddenly running away, Matsumoto Masamoto did not hesitate to order the light cavalry not to stop and continue to rush forward to pursue our troops.

In terms of impact force and killing effect, heavy cavalry is definitely much more powerful than light cavalry, but in terms of running speed, light cavalry is of course faster. Although our heavy cavalry ran ahead, the light cavalry behind quickly caught up. It is not a good thing to be chased by others. Seeing that the two teams of cavalry were about to catch up, Eagle suddenly raised the flag in his hand, and all the horses in the row with him jumped up in order. , follow the cavalry behind to this position and jump together.

The rb cavalry fell behind and fell into disgrace. Where did we see our cavalry playing tricks in front? When their people arrived at the position where the eagle had just raised the flag, a steel cable on the ground suddenly stretched and bounced up. None of the rb cavalry knew that there would be a tripping rope here. They just saw our people running over and it was fine, but as soon as they arrived It got tricked.

There was a burst of war horses neighing, and the Japanese light cavalry vanguard's horses stumbled neatly. The war horse's head bit the ground, and the cavalryman rolled out and was pressed on top by the war horse. The cavalry behind them were too fast and had no time to dodge. As a result, they all collided with each other. Fortunately, the light cavalry reacted quickly, and all the troops in the second half were bypassed from both sides. It's just the front part that's all gone.

This rope was arranged by several invisible players in our guild in the past, but the plan was my own. General Wu is the strategic general in the rear, and the commander-in-chief is an expert, but I am an expert in tactical skills. This rope helped the cavalry a lot. The rb cavalry finally caught up and was pulled away.

Although light cavalry is faster than heavy cavalry, we are all cavalry and can only be so fast as long as the heavy cavalry doesn't stop. It would take half a day to chase such a small distance. Seeing that the platform in front had arrived, the heavy cavalry sped up and rushed onto the springboard with the sound of rumbling horse hooves.

All the heavy cavalry on our side rushed back along the springboard into the opening above the city, and the following cavalry rushed up. When the last cavalry tower got on the gangplank, without waiting for them all to enter the city, the gangplank had automatically started to rise slowly. The following rb cavalry was only two horse lengths away from the last of our heavy cavalry. Seeing the springboard rising, the leading cavalry urged the horse to jump up and the following cavalry also jumped up. But there were only five or six rows of people up there. When the seventh row arrived, the springboard was already too high. Most of the jumping horses hit the eaves of the springboard and fell backwards. The cavalrymen who had just rushed up did not know that the people behind them had not followed. The cavalry just charges and doesn't care about the people around them. Seeing that the Japanese cavalry who had caught up with our heavy cavalry had just raised their weapons, they were pierced by thin red lines fired from above the city and fell down.

Being so close to Essinger has already entered the defense range of small weapons. These RB cavalry are indeed brave, but unfortunately they are a little weak-minded and should not pursue them at this time. The following RB light cavalry chased them below the city, but the springboard had already risen more than two meters. It is possible for the cavalry to get up on their own, but the war horses cannot get up anyway. But if the cavalry goes up without horses, is it still called cavalry?

There were not many Japanese cavalry on the springboard, and they were quickly slaughtered. The mechanical gear actually controlled the springboard to vibrate a few times, shaking all the corpses down. Then the springboard folded up automatically and was taken back into the city. The armor on the twenty exits on the city wall fell back to seal the city wall, and the RB cavalry below could only look at the city and sigh. The cavalry can't do anything about the city. What is needed to deal with a city like Essinger is a specialized infantry attack force.

After dealing with those smoke bombs, the Japanese army finally restored smooth command, and the army resumed its charge. However, compared with ten minutes ago, they were delayed too much in time, and they also paid a heavy price of more than 30,000 casualties. What made Masamoto Matsumoto even more angry was that the Essinger heavy cavalry unit that caused this murder actually only had three dead and two injured.

Masamoto Matsumoto directed the army to pursue them closer and closer, but they became more and more anxious. There is already the sea in front of Essinger, and the front row of tracks in the city is no more than 300 meters away from the coastline. Can this not make Matsumoto Masako anxious?

In Essinger, we feel completely opposite to Masa Matsumoto. We feel quite relaxed. Judging from the current speed, most of Isinger has already reached the sea when Matsumoto Masa's army catches up with us, and the remaining part will not stay on land for too long, at least not enough time for Matsumoto Masa to attack by force.

Seeing if I was wrinkled, Rose came over and rubbed my forehead: "Matsumoto Masaru can no longer catch up with us, what are you still worried about?"

"What I'm really worried about now is not RB's army."

General Wu looked at me in confusion: "Aren't you worried about the Japanese army? What are you worried about?"

I pointed to my feet: "Worried about Essinger."

"What is there to worry about, Essinger?"

"He is worried about the gravity resistance device." Woma said it right at once.

Rose looked at me and said, "If we can't fly, we can just float over."

Woma explained to me: "It used to be possible to float over, but I'm afraid it can't be done now."

"Why?"

"Have you forgotten that there are still several big holes in the city wall of Essinger?"

When Woma said this, everyone understood. Essinger is injured now, and the holes in the city wall will definitely get water. Without the help of the gravity resistance device, Essinger would really become an underwater city!