Chapter 408: Battle of the Swamp (Part I)
As a supreme ruler in charge of the overall situation of this battle, Sun Lin must not only be as cunning as a fox, but also brave and bold as a lion.
After learning about the situation of the more than 200,000 aristocratic army, instead of taking a direct attack on Atlantis City, Sun Lin decided to give up the plan to fight a second Atlantis offensive and defensive battle with the more than 200,000 aristocratic army, which is due to the fact that the aristocratic army has no less than 200 war machines, and its soldiers are almost all shield spearmen, heavy infantry and cannon fodder raiders, which are more good at fighting siege warfare, the main reason is because Sun Lin does not want this group of noble troops to reduce the treasury revenue funds of the great empire in the next quarter.
As the most strategically important and geographically important maritime trade import and export of the Western Continent, Atlantis alone handles three times the amount of seaborne trade goods in London City every day, and the number of goods it handles by land trade can even be compared with the throughput of the New Delhi Peninsula in half a year in good times. The sheer volume of cargo represents an astronomical amount of trade revenue that Atlantis City pays to the Sunset Treasury every quarter.
Don't look at this epic city, the sun never sets navy just captured at the beginning of this year, and after the capture, many of its public facilities are not as good as the level of London City, and because of the offensive and defensive wars, the city's building groups and defense facilities are everywhere with traces of damage, forcing the sun never set empire to spend a sum of money that can fully establish 10 griffon knights after capturing the city, and enough materials to build a large city to repair Atlantis, but this repair and improve various public, The first reward for getting Atlantis back up and running was the potential financial hole created by the maintenance costs of the Empire, which was filled by the taxes paid by the citizens of Atlantis and the trade taxes paid by all the merchants in the city after six months of the Empire's control of Atlantis, which was equivalent to two quarters.
In the next two months, the funds provided by this epic city also brought great wealth to the Great Empire, if Sun Lin spent any aspect of the construction of the Great Empire on the funds provided by the city of Atlantis for two months, then the cities on the coast of the entire Western Continent Continent would be engraved with the name of Atlantis. Therefore, as long as the king with a little brain knows how much damage is caused by the siege of this kind of city that advances thousands of gold, ten thousand gold or even hundreds of millions of gold every day, resulting in the complete paralysis of land transportation and even sea transportation in its trade system, and how much negative impact such losses will have on the development of the empire when the sun never sets, the power of this extremely young empire is in a period of rapid development, in the end, unless the hope of victory is very slim, it is impossible for Sun Lin to fight a city offensive and defensive war with the noble army.
And since he chose to fight outside the city, according to Sun Lin's thoughts, he was really sorry for the more than 200,000 noble troops who did not fight an ambush on his side, but this ambush battle was different from the past, because Sun Lin did not choose the so-called valley or dense forest area, but a swamp woodland that had almost no advantage over himself and the noble army. As for the reason why the aristocratic army chose to take this route, the main reason is inseparable from the relationship between the archers and cavalry troops on the side where the sun never sets: the aristocratic army, which has lost its baggage supplies, of course, must choose a closer route and go to Atlantis City as soon as possible before the baggage is consumed.
"Squad 13, outflank from the left flank! The 14th and 15th squads are attacking head-on, and they must not let those Atlantic engineers assemble all the war equipment! "Under the command of a thousand-commander officer of the Sunset, three teams of Lancester Mace soldiers armed with maces and shields immediately turned from running to charging, and after stepping on a road full of arrows and the corpses of Atlanta militia swordsmen left for themselves by the Sunset ranged infantry before, they crossed a stream and flew towards the Atlantan Crescent Spearmen who had regrouped in a dense formation after receiving the flint rolling stone trap prepared by the Sunset army for all the noble armies.
"Kill !!" The crescent spearmen on the side of the Atlanta aristocratic army first used the zither-shaped shield in their hands to effectively reduce the charge damage led by these Lancester hammer soldiers when the soldiers collided with the soldiers, and at the same time pierced the bodies of many Lancester hammer soldiers with the average crescent spear in their hands, and then threw the zither-shaped shield in their hands on the ground after the charge, and began to assassinate and slash the Lancester hammer soldiers with the way of wielding a halberd. This led to an unimaginable defeat in the first head-on collision between the army of the sun and the Atlantan aristocracy, and in less than 10 seconds, the two wings of the front, middle and rear armies of the noble army raided by the army of the sun did not set left the corpses of thousands of Lancester hammer soldiers.
"Is this the Atlante-specific class that Asal was talking about when he passed the news of Philadelphia to me before, the Atlantan Crescent Spearman? Sure enough, it is a very good class, which can not only resist the charge of heavy cavalry like a shield spearman, but also sweep the light infantry with a halberd in hand-to-hand combat, .............but how much of a crescent spearman who has lost his formation can withstand the charge of the berserk orcs? Looking around at the swamp in front of him, which had all been turned into battlefields, Sun Lin muttered contemptuously on a small slope on a war horse, wrapped himself in a white robe and silver mask.
At the same time, all the Lancet hammermen who had previously confronted the Atlantic Crescent spearmen, after hearing a trumpet, did not look back, even exposing their backs to the side of the noble army, and began to retreat towards the swamp and jungle areas on both sides of the loess road. Before they had time to cheer, the Atlantic Crescent Spearmen immediately discovered that in the direction that these Lancet hammermen had come before, a group of Orc warriors who were armed with heavy swords and wearing heavy plate armor were already less than 200 miles away from their side.
"Roar!" But after the frenzied orcs launched a charge, especially after these orcs were equipped with heavy plate armor and heavy swords specially designed for the sunset craftsmen, these orcs showed a charge power comparable to that of the heavy cavalry, and in the direction of these orcs' charge, the Atlantan crescent spearmen who had originally felt the joy of victory instantly fell into the ice cave.
However, Sun Lin, who saw that his orc army had broken through the outer battle line of the noble army, was not happy, because he found that the Atlantan heavy cavalry troops who had been attracted by his own auxiliary cavalry had rushed back to the war zone.