Chapter 560 The Zigzag Gray Line (Part 2)

Rhine River.

This river is not exactly the same as the mother river of Western Europe on Earth, but it has nothing to do with it.

It’s just that the Teutonic Knights who controlled this place named this river the Rhine River according to their own cultural traditions, and hoped that this river could play the role of the mother river of Western Europe in helping Europe.

Let the area controlled by the Teutonic Knights become the most densely populated and economically developed area, and promote the improvement of the trade level of the entire West.

Let them become the ‘center’.

Of course, this symbol of the center has now become the only barrier they can rely on. On one side of the river is the bastion defense line they built.

On the other side is the coalition forces that are temporarily building fortifications.

If there is no moat, the Eastern Coalition, which has five times the strength of theirs, will use their own soldiers to fill this meat grinder for rapid consumption until their reinforcements can’t keep up with the increasing casualties.

The Teutonic Knights stationed in the middle of this alien river named the Rhine had no garrisons or military assistance from other knights. They relied entirely on their lords to form a two-kilometer-long fortified fortress defense line, of which the deep fortified area was only one kilometer.

Other knights were quite cautious in providing assistance to the Teutonic Knights, and the Teutonic Knights were also cautious in accepting assistance from other knights in a natural barrier.

This is a debt, and if they are not going to turn against each other, the debt must be repaid.

Everyone is calculating the interests of their own knights, and every great knight in the knights argues for these interests. They are eager to hope that the Teutonic Knights, who control the middle section of the Rhine, can give up some of their interests.

The gains after the victory of the war have nothing to do with how much effort you put in the battle, but only with how much strength you still retain after the war.

For the remaining two knights and one chieftain, the best outcome for the Teutonic Knights is to fight the Eastern Alliance to a draw, and then they can let the Teutonic Knights hold the Rhine River front and fight an endless war of attrition with the Alliance.

In this way, they can simultaneously eliminate the two major threats and operate their own territory with peace of mind.

Moreover, they do not see any possibility that the Teutonic Knights, who rely on natural barriers, will be conquered in the short term, and the situation is developing in the best direction they think.

They also know that the Crusaders are organizing an offensive... so as long as the Crusaders launch an attack on the Eastern defense line, everything will be fine.

The two knights and one chieftain in the rear are counting the days and looking forward to the attack of the Church, and constantly sending out scout cavalry to see how the Church's army is prepared and when they can launch an attack.

They take a small look every day and a big look every three days. Even if the Hound Sister kills the scout, they will run over to scout without caring about their lives.

This made the Church a little nervous, fearing that they would be bombarded again, fearing that these people were the reconnaissance vanguards coming to attack, and that there was a large army coming behind them to take advantage of the weakness they had just encountered after the bombardment to give them a hard blow.

Both sides were very nervous.

But this had nothing to do with the Eastern Alliance and the Teutonic Knights who were confronting each other on the river bank.

The Germans looked at the other side of the Rhine, and on the other side of the river were people with black hair and black eyes.

This was originally the commercial district of the Teutonic Knights. After the war broke out, sandbags were laid out to become a trench fortress. The musketeers stationed here made the defense line even stronger.

So far, the Eastern Alliance has only launched a large-scale offensive against the fortified area of ​​the Teutonic Knights on the third day, and that offensive directly smashed half of the No. 3 fortress.

The soldiers in armor started close combat in the stone fortress in a very bloody way. You shoot through my chainmail, I cut through your plate armor, and when the runes on the knife are worn out, I find a new weapon to continue to kill the enemy in front of me.

The casualties of the ordinary troops of both sides in the first encounter have reached an astonishing 5,000.

There is no room for both sides to retreat in the narrow alleys. Either swing the knife forward or die.

The river prevented the coalition forces from investing an overwhelming force advantage at the first time, and the military quality of the coalition forces did not gain an overwhelming advantage, allowing the soldiers of the Teutonic Knights to win in close combat. After realizing that they were at a disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat, the coalition forces quickly retreated like a receding tide.

They waited for the next opportunity to attack.

"This turtle shell is really hard to knock."

Gao Yu put down the telescope in his hand and spat.