Chapter 356: The Battle Begins

"Humph! What's going on? Didn't the information you provided me say that the soldiers who stayed in the cities and forts in the southern coastal area only had that little strength? Why do you want my 100,000-strong army to take not even a single town so far! The flesh-faced Haypad, with blood-red eyes, looked angrily at the Atlantan nobles in front of him who fell to one knee in fear.

"This .........." Several marquis-level Atlanta nobles, you look at me, I see you are at a loss, and in the end, it was an older Atlanta Marquis who slowly got up and replied: "Your Excellency General, the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets not only sent its Sea Clan troops to the battlefield, but even those Sunset Sailors and Xiyi Monkeys, who were originally only fighting on the deck, were mobilized by their naval commander-in-chief Solly and under the command of their Marine Commander Oda Nobunaga, they were stationed in those towns, and, moreover, ............ The Great Empire seems to have mobilized a new army from the Northwest Continent, although the overall combat effectiveness is not strong, and the number is not large, but it is enough to hold those coastal cities for a short time, and this is still in the case of the victory balance in favor of us............."

"............. really don't know what the use of those rats you raised! There are a large number of soldiers in the Northwest Continent mobilizing you, but you have not noticed any news before this. At this time, although Haybad's tone was stern, it revealed a strong and inward-looking tone. It's no wonder, after all, although he is nominally the commander-in-chief of the 300,000 Atlanta miscellaneous soldiers, and at least in his hands, including thousands of chainmail cavalry, about 50,000 belong to the heavy infantry soldiers who have reached the professional level even in the original Atlanta Empire, but the other more than 200,000 Atlanta miscellaneous soldiers are not his, and their ultimate command is all in the hands of dozens of Atlanta nobles in the army.

At this time, if you want to climb to a higher position in the officialdom, unless you can get the opportunity of one in a hundred million to be done by the supreme leader, you must play tricks, and you have to play power tricks with your opponents, and obviously the Atlantan general named Haybad in front of him is also a veteran of officialdom, so he knows that he can't force these nominally subordinate nobles to himself too tightly at this time, if he really provokes these nobles to make them do some things that jump over the wall, such as uniting to impeach himself, That's the big deal.

"Let's all go down, I need to be alone for a while." Haybad held his forehead with one hand and waved at the nobles with the other, and then when the last nobleman stepped out of the tent with one foot, Haybad suddenly said, "Also, you tell the rest of the nobles that you are going to fight tonight and tomorrow." ”

Early morning of the second day.............

"Woo woo ............." The huge horns of the army of the Great Empire sounded under the blowing of the soldiers who never set the sun, and the heavily armed swordsmen holding knightly shields and knightly swords ran out of the camp where they lived in succession in just a few minutes, and the plate armor that had not been removed made a crisp sound as the heavy swordsmen moved quickly.

Before that, the Lancet hammermen, who were used as auxiliary infantry, had already left the camp and moved to the front of the battlefield under the cover of the Yeoman longbowmen who were keeping vigil, and nearly half of the engineers in the Sunset Army were also pushing scorpion crossbows forward after a short period of tidying up, while the rest of the engineers were installing the No. 3 counterweight trebuchets.

On the other hand, on the Atlanta side, a large number of Atlantan peasants wearing leather armor and cloth armor are frantically pouring out of their camps, in an extremely scattered formation, holding all kinds of weapons that have been eliminated by those Atlantan soldiers and even miscellaneous soldiers, and in the curses and whips of those officers, they are launching a surprise attack on the side where the sun never sets, and the number of cannon fodder teams in this raid is not even 2,000 people, and the distance between those Atlantan peasants is so large. This force is only here to test the strength of the long-range firepower of the side that the sun never sets.

"Shoot the arrows!" The bowstring sounded, but it was not the Yoman longbowmen who released the thousands of arrows, but the Reykya archers who had previously left the camp with the Leinster Maceers. The Reykja archers with sophisticated compound bows and sharp battleships, or craniotomy hammers, and the replacement of inlaid armor with 1/4 plate armor in the improvement of equipment and combat attributes caused by many battles in the Western Continent, although they did not specialize in archery like the Yoman longbowmen, nor did they specialize in lethality and defense like the giant shield crossbowmen, but they became ranged troops that can use long-range weapons to kill and injure the enemy with the same ranged weapons as the Nordic archers, and can use melee weapons to fight the enemy hand-to-hand, and vaguely can compete with the "Little Scottish Guards" The so-called Venetian composite archers are on par, after all, Reykjavik has now also been replaced with light plate or steel plate armor.

Although the archery skills of the Reykya archers are not strong, fortunately, their number is more than the Atlanta cannon fodder that rushed up, and they are still at the top of the hilly area at this time, and the Reykya archers at the rear of the array do not need to rely on the high projectile method with a low hit rate to release their archery skills at this time, so after a few rounds of arrow rain, the Atlantan cannon fodder that rushed over has already fallen hundreds of people, and those cannon fodder have also completely fled.

From this situation, the Atlanta side had already guessed how strong the long-range firepower of the Sunset side was, so after dozens of minutes, when most of the Atlanta soldiers had left the camp and lined up outside it, and the Sunset side had almost completed the formation (the No. 3 configuration trebuchet had not yet arrived at the designated projectile site), the soldiers on the Atlanta side, under the command of Haybad, led by the long-range infantry, followed by the heavy infantry and shield spearmen, and the light infantry miscellaneous divisions were in the position on both flanks and in the rear. Marching in the direction of the army on which the sun never sets.

And the sun does not set, and it is rare not to put on a posture of comprehensive defense, but after leaving the Yoman longbowmen and the Xiyi Ashigaru formation composed of samurai spears and spears, to restore to the full formation of the Changyi group and those Xiyi samurai armed with wild swords to take the lead, armed with sickles, swords, short spears Xiyi samurai, lancet hammer soldiers and heavy swordsmen to guard the wings, Reykya archers, giant shield crossbowmen behind the palace moved forward, it is worth mentioning that Assal, who was the commander-in-chief of the Sunset Army, and the 150 members of the General Guard, who protected his life, were also in this Sunset Army, which was slowly moving forward and began to speed up the pace of movement.

"Kill!" In the roar of the warriors on both sides, under the rain of black arrows, the private soldiers of the Atlantan nobles, who were outnumbered, collided with Changyi, who was poorly equipped but could cut his body in two with a single sword, and the sound of intertwined weapons began to spread out of the surroundings.