Chapter 472: Twin Star Fall (1)
This battle of more than 300,000 people on the side of the sun does not set against more than 400,000 people on the side of the water unicorn is named the fall of the double star in the future history books, because this is the first battle in which the sun does not set since the empire marched into the king continent, the first battle in which the sun does not set general-level officers were killed, and two people were killed at once.
Since the 11th District was captured by one of the advance units of the Water Kirin Army, in addition to fighting with other advance forces, or the Atlantan Crescent Spearmen in the area where the battle was about to be fought, the 30,000 Atlantan Crescent Spearmen who were originally guarding the forward defense belt began to make a strategic retreat in the direction of Fort Riptide after being killed for nearly 3 minutes 1 and leaving 4 points 1 behind.
Perhaps because when these Atlantan spearmen were guarding the forward defense belt, the military did not equip them with any war machinery, and even the number of strategic consumables such as grain, grass and arrows was not much, and the wooden fort itself it guarded was a one-time building, so the speed of the Atlantan crescent spearmen who received the news of retreat, and even the speed of the heavy cavalry that never set in some cases was comparable to that, in less than 5 days, the most rear, The 700 Atlantic spearmen in the Wooden Fort of Area 17, which was farthest away from Fort Riptide, also returned to Fort Riptide.
However, on the third day after all the nearly 20,000 Atlantic spearmen returned to Fort Riptide, they moved the fastest, except for some soldiers who were infantry, including the right army of 70,000 cavalry troops in the Water Kirin army, which appeared in the defense belt of the four counties in the territory of the four counties northwest of Fort Riptide.
There are three reasons why all the cavalry in the hands of the Water Qilin are sent here: first, the Sunset Rainforest Defense Zone located in the southeast, its internal terrain is a dense forest overgrown with big trees, and the battle with the Sunset Longbow Troops who have Atlantan guides and are good at rainforest battles is completely for these marksmen to practice shooting, and although most of the terrain around Fort Riptide is a low grass and hilly area, it is a key defense area for the Sunrise Side, And there is also a giant fortress with a 3-layer defensive wall - Riptide Fort, which is not suitable for siege warfare cavalry commanders to hit nails here, and compared with the previous two, the original Atlanta Empire's inland territory of light industry, 4 county territories in developed agricultural areas, plus most of the farmland and flax, cotton, fruits and vegetables and other plantations, the terrain is relatively flat, suitable for a large number of cavalry to fight, so as long as the commander of the right army on the water unicorn side thinks the same as a normal person, he will let his 70,000 cavalry break through here, Raid your way around the back of Riptide Fortress and join your main army in this massive military fortress to defeat the city's enemies, but now..........
"What's going on! What is the situation! As the cavalry general of the Water Qilin Empire, who was given high hopes by the Water Qilin Emperor Patton, Farabino, he found that the opponent he met now was definitely a madman, an out-and-out madman, because only a madman in this world would dare to make a price of tearing down dozens of dams and turning the surrounding area of the four county territories into an ocean in a short period of time, blocking the 70,000 troops on his side here.
However, if it was just because of the flood, Farabino would definitely not be as crazy as he is now, after all, the terrain in the four counties is extremely flat, and even some low grassy hills are very rare as far as the eye can see, although the sun never sets on the side of the dam to widen the hundreds of rivers and streams flowing in the four counties, but those rushing floods come and go quickly, and the water qilin right army only rested in the uneroded area for a few days, and the rushing flood disappeared. And what really Farabino was angry about was the scene after the flood.
Since most of the land in the four counties is fields, what appears in front of Farabino after the flood is no longer flat land, but muddy land full of pools of water and mud puddles, although the war horse can also move forward on this terrain, but the speed will be slowed down when running, and if you are not careful, it will cause the war horse to slide and affect the comrades of the same team.
If there is any news that makes Farabino more angry than it is now, it is that when Farabino was about to march, the 50,000 Saiyi Ashigaru guarding the four prefectures, led by the three Saiyi legions and Oda Nobunaga, together with 5,000 Saiyi sailors, appeared on the bank of the Cressy River that had previously resisted the advance of the Suikirin's right army, and put on a field battle to confront Farabino's cavalry army on both sides of the river, and the time of the confrontation between the two sides was just 4 o'clock in the morning, and the sky was still very dark. When the air is full of thick fog.
"Pure infantry and pure cavalry fight in the field, is the commander who never sets the sun really crazy?" Although he felt faintly uneasy in his heart, because his boss, that is, the emperor of the Water Qilin Empire, Barton, had already given himself a death order when he set off, and he must go around to the rear of Riptide Fort within 3 weeks, so after weighing the pros and cons, relying on his confidence in the 30,000 Water Qilin Heavy Knights in his hands, coupled with Farabino's opinion, his side is a cavalry division that has been resting for a few days, and the other party is indeed coming from a long distance. The sun does not set and the tired army with powerful long-range weapons (Farabino does not know that what appeared in front of him is the Xiyi army with katanas, sickles and samurai spears as the mainstream weapons, rather than the regular army that uses longbows, heavy crossbows and swords and shields as the mainstream weapons, but in fact, the top level of the Water Qilin Empire does not know that there will be a Xiyi army in the army that is completely different from the regular army of the sunset), and now the fog is thick, and it is the long-range troops that the sun does not set can not send out the normal level, A great time for your cavalry to launch an early morning assault.
Therefore, the various circumstances in front of him led to Farabino after weighing the pros and cons, he issued an order for a frontal assault on his own cavalry, and he didn't even let the light cavalry outflank him, and this was also the biggest failure of the Water Qilin Right Route Army in the Battle of Cressie, so that when this battle that was praised as a shame for the cavalry by the Water Qilin Empire ended, the Sun Never Sets Xiyi Army only beat the 70,000 Water Qilin Empire cavalry army with less than 700 casualties, so that after the Battle of Double Star Fall, There is not one in the cavalry of the Water Qilin Empire that has returned to China.