Chapter 355: Loyal Monarch
Asal chose to attack head-on with the opponent to fight the field battle that his side is good at, but this does not mean that after the sun never sets and the army comes into contact with Atlanta head-on, Asal himself immediately fights a wave, which is completely a fool's performance, especially since the number of people on his side is only half of the Atlantan noble coalition army, and there is still no time for some heavy cavalry that can form a little scale among this half of the people; On the other side, it is obvious that the former Atlanta Empire general named Hybad on the Atlanta side also has some scruples about the elite army on which the sun never sets, plus the Atlanta side is still a long-range army, and it is definitely not as good as the sun never sets in terms of physical strength, and the heavy cavalry in his hands is only more than 3,000, and they are all chainmail cavalry who are only equipped with chain mail, ordinary war horses and wooden cavalry guns.
It is precisely for various reasons that although the two sides did not exchange war letters and agreed on a date to fight again, they both tacitly relied on the terrain around the place where the army went to choose to camp. In order to confuse the side where the sun does not set, so that it cannot determine how many Atlantan farmers its side has brought to participate in the war in addition to the 250,000 regular army, the Atlantan side chose an area with relatively flat terrain and a few small woods in the surrounding grass plains to station. On the other hand, on the side where the sun never sets, in order to increase the projection distance between their long-range soldiers and the war equipment of the engineering troops, they chose to camp in the plains and hilly areas with slightly higher terrain.
And when the two sides spent a few days building extremely simple seals in the terrain they chose, they began to confront each other, and it didn't matter if the sun never set, the longer the battle dragged on for them, the more the legions of the regular army could be fully strengthened over time, and when the time came, the sun would not set on the side with 150,000 elite soldiers and 60,000 Xiyi servant army, so why fear the Atlantan side?
It is worth noting that Assar's side does not seem to be in a hurry to attack, except that the opponent's troops really need to rest, Asal is sure that the other party must be waiting for something to happen, this situation does make Asal feel uneasy for a certain period of time, but in his intelligence network on the West Continent, after learning that the coastal cities in the southern part of the coastal occupation area of his own West Continent were invaded by the Atlantan nobles' coalition side, Asal was relieved, because he believed that he had been hired from the Northwest Continent before. The group of mercenaries who are now left in the southern part of the coastal occupation zone on the Western Continent is definitely enough for the Atlantan miscellaneous soldiers to drink a pot.
"This group of Atlanta miscellaneous soldiers, also worthy of grandpa and me to cut it? Little ones! Let's get to work! The employer said that if you repel today's attack, you can get 1 more gold coin for each person! A roar of rage sounded above the city walls, and many strange-looking Sunset warriors, under the command of some seemingly leaders, distinguished the regular army of Sunset or the Xiyi servant army on the city wall, and killed the Atlantic soldiers who climbed up with the help of siege ladders and siege towers without a fight or in groups of several people.
All of them say that these soldiers who never set the sun have strange shapes, not because of their appearance, but because these soldiers who never set the sun are simply diverse in terms of armor and weapons. In the hands of these warriors who never set the sun, although most of them are masters who use knightly swords and small round shields, there are also many weapons equipped with war hammers and wing shields, or maces and flails, and even counterweights such as halberds and knight shields. In addition, there is another thing that makes people who know the configuration of the army feel strange is that the armor on the soldiers of these soldiers is also varied, and even some of the strange-looking armor is actually formed by binding steel armor and iron armor with iron nails, which is completely inconsistent with the requirements of the army that never sets the sun, and the necessary standards and unified regulations for the configuration of various arms.
"The sun never sets on mercenaries......... Is it? Why would His Majesty Sun Lin give up these soldiers with such strong combat effectiveness, this does not conform to the criteria for His Majesty Sun Lin's Majesty to use everything? A certain Xiyi commander who was standing on the city gate and commanding the troops defending the city to fight, after watching those strange-looking soldiers who never set the sun fighting for a while, finally couldn't help but stop a commander who never set the sun beside him, and asked curiously.
"Oh, sir, you're asking about the origin of these battle freaks." Because of the Xiyi people's broken English accent, the non-commissioned officer who was stopped by the sun never set said with a sudden realization on his face after carefully combing it: "These sunset mercenaries are all composed of soldiers who have been wounded in the sunset army, war wounded veterans, and prisoners who have violated the ban on the battlefield, and they can't return to the sunset army for various reasons, but they don't want to leave the battlefield, so they joined the mercenary guild set up by Sun Linmian." ”
"Will they be hired by other forces as well?"
"Of course, how can these soldiers who do not have the subsidy of the living expenses of the military department only accept the task of the Sunset Empire, in fact, the employers of these mercenaries are almost all from all regions of the King Continent, such as the vampire empire, which has hired a group of sunset sailors who retired from the Sunset Navy to work on their side, and some powerful forces in the Eastern Continent and the Southern Continent have also taken away some sunset mercenaries to their countries."
"If that's the case, then if our Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets enters the Eastern Continent or the Southern Continent in the future, won't we run into these veterans of the Sun Never Setting Empire, and what should we do when they stand on the opposite side of us? Will they, or you, really do it to their former comrades? ”
"I don't know what to do." The non-commissioned officer of the sun does not set for a while and replied: "But I think that when the time comes, if I really come into contact with that group of battle maniacs, I should all be killed, if they dare to block the pace of His Majesty's progress.......... after all, even if I am a thousand-commander, I am just a soldier in the hands of His Majesty, and the choice of His Majesty is our choice, and our soldiers who never set the sun, as the claws of the golden lion of the Great Empire, will never allow any obstacles to resist the front of His Majesty, even if those obstacles are our former comrades-in-arms." ”