I Will Be The Crowned King

The sound of the bugle resounding through the earth exploded from the position of the Janissary Corps, and along with the golden-red tide, it attacked Eagle Point City from the rolling hills.

The Southern Army Corps was caught off guard, and the panicked soldiers shoved the unfinished bread into their mouths and picked up the rifles beside them. They frantically urged and cursed.

No one thought that Iser would choose this time to launch another round of attacks, and it was all over the line!

At the top of the fortress tower, with the help of a telescope, Ludwig, with a grim face, could clearly overlook the entire battlefield; the offensive of the Guard Corps was divided into three parts, each of which consisted of almost six infantry regiments, which attacked in sequence, just like one Huge unilateral trapezoid.

The three columns advanced along the uneven road, maintaining a similar rhythm, toward the southern legion line.

Looking at the golden red that was about to cross the center line of the battlefield, Ludwig's heart sank tightly, the corners of his mouth pursed tightly, and the knuckles of his fingers, clutching the monocular, were slightly white.

At 4:50, Louis Bernard was the first to fire.

The rolling hills suddenly lit up into pieces of fire, accompanied by the screams of tearing the air, twelve pounds of solid bullets slammed into the defensive positions, and the deafening blasting sound swayed in the ears of every soldier. ; blasting smoke nearly ten meters high, completely blocking the view of the defensive position.

Although it is slightly inferior to the imperial artillery, 12 days is enough for Louis Bernard to figure out the layout of the southern legion's defense line, formulate artillery positions and coordinates in advance for the artillery positions hidden on the high ground, and strike down the most critical ones. Artillery fort to provide cover for the army.

For the newly formed Guard Corps, it is a very good achievement to be able to do this, and even many Clovis commanders are not as good as them. Once the gun positions are confirmed, they will not move again, and can only be used as a deterrent weapon. use.

But...that's not Ludwig Franz's style.

Looking at the dimly lit artillery positions on the opposite side, the expressionless commander of the Southern Army raised his right hand to the herald who was waiting for orders behind him.

"Boom!!!! Boom!!!! Boom!!!!"

With the roar of the city defense artillery of the Eagle Point City Fortress, the artillerymen of the Imperial Guard Corps had no time to cheer for the victory they had just achieved, and they ushered in the "salutation" of the Southern Corps - four forty-eight-pound mortars and eight twenty-four pounders. The pound cannons fired at the same time, and the hot solid bullets swooped towards them from a kilometer away under the gaze of a pair of frightened eyes.

The Iser artillery position, which was not considered solid, was instantly enveloped by smoke and fire, and the peripheral fortifications that were not considered solid were directly blown to dust. It was torn to pieces, and several light artillery pieces were directly blown into the sky.

Just when the rest of the surviving artillerymen took all this as a coincidence, the sound of artillery came again from the direction of Eagle Point City, the second round of artillery strikes, then the third round, the fourth round... Black smoke billowed from the sparks in full bloom. It rose to the ground, almost completely obscuring the sun.

Ludwig, who gently put down the telescope, hoped to look at the heights shrouded in black smoke, with a hint of complacentness in his eyes.

Perhaps Louis Bernard thought he had kept the artillery positions secret enough, but in the eyes of Ludwig, a general turned artillery colonel, there were no secrets from the start.

The rugged terrain around Eagle Point City is destined to have so many artillery positions that can pose a threat to the fortress. Unless the Guard Corps is armed with curved artillery and has high-quality artillery that can aim purely by distance, Louis Bell There was no way Na could have placed the artillery where he couldn't see it.

So Ludwig only needs to set the approximate position, and then wait for Louis Bernard's artillery to open fire to expose himself, and he can send all the enemies to the sky.

Even if Louis Bernard was careful enough to prepare fortifications for artillery positions, four forty-eight-pound mortars could still pose a lethal threat to him.

Sure enough, after Ludwig knocked out two artillery positions in a row, he realized that the artillerymen of the Imperial Guard Corps with large-caliber heavy artillery in Eagle Point City obviously felt threatened, and their firepower was much weaker than at the beginning.

Ludwig guessed that they were probably adjusting the position of the artillery, trying to move some of the artillery away from the threat range of the fortress, right?

In that case, don't blame me for being rude.

"Adjust the gun positions, all the guns are aimed at the front of the position, and prepare shrapnel!"

The right hand holding the hilt at his waist turned pale, and Ludwig, who was desperately restraining his nervousness, ordered: "The main firepower is aimed at the front of the right wing of the position and suppresses them!"

"Yes--!!!!"

The soldiers answered in unison.

With a grim face, Ludwig turned his attention to the battlefield again. With the cover of the initial artillery fire, the front column of the Praetorian Guard Corps had already spread out to the two wings. The soldiers of the Praetorian Guard Corps were cut by the terrain. With his head held high, he advanced towards the fort on the defensive position amid the sound of artillery fire.

Taking advantage of the end of the artillery shelling, several elf knights holding high battle flags immediately gave the order to attack; the elven line infantry with rifles burst into roars, raised their bayonets and charged in rows.

The Clovis soldiers who shrank in the position immediately fired back. Although the smoke on the position still did not dissipate, the golden-red uniform of the Praetorian Guards was as conspicuous as a live target, and there was no need to aim within 50 meters. .

In the uniform row of gunfire, the "golden red" in the front row fell down almost instantly; all the artillery bases were built on the high ground relying on the terrain, and the elevation attack and the rough terrain greatly dragged down their attack speed. , and could not escape the lead bullets pouring in.

Rows of barrages swept over their heads, and the Iser elves, whose bodies exploded the blood mist constantly, fell to the ground screaming, and the dense formation made them unable to hide at all, and the casualties were almost visible to the naked eye. speed expansion.

But in these eyes, the fanatic Iser elves were still indifferent to their fallen companions, and even stepped on the wounded soldiers' bodies, just to pass more quickly.

"These elfs of Iser..."

A slightly older infantry commander who was guarding the fort in the forward position frowned and looked at the enemies who were already close at hand with complicated eyes.

As an old man in the army, he is not unfamiliar with this kind of eyes - when the Clovis officers who experienced sectarian wars and pagan wars also had such eyes, fanatical and fearless, as if death was just a A process of life, not an end.

Now that the various sects have merged, and the world of order finally has no wars caused by religion, it is really hard not to feel emotional to see this kind of eyes from the Iser elf.

Of course, it's just a sigh... The old infantry commander stood up with his hands on his knees, looked around the cannon for a week, and pulled out his saber:

"Soldiers - bayonet, prepare - prepare - take! Enemy!"

"Long live Clovis-!!!!"/"For the glory of Iser-!!!!"

The hand-to-hand combat began.

The golden-red flood was divided into countless streams by the terrain, and again in front of the southern legion's defense line gathered into a monstrous wave, which slapped mercilessly on the rock-like cannon.

Compared with the previous "exploratory harassment", all the soldiers of the Southern Legion could feel the pressure suddenly increased.

The two sides were fighting in front of the long and narrow trenches and the towering cannons. An Isel elf jumped into the trenches, and as soon as he raised his weapon, he was pierced by the enemy in front of him. It hit the Clovis soldier in the face, and the latter fell to the ground screaming.

The excited Iser elf gasped in pain. Before he could find his next target, an elderly officer appeared behind the fallen soldier, holding a revolver aimed at him in his right hand.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The Ysel elf, whose cheeks were smashed, was bleeding profusely, and the corpse fell to the ground.

Roars and screams exploded from every part of the front, accompanied by the sound of gunfire and the collision of bayonets; the janissary corps with rifle salvos and twelve-pound solid bullets bombarded as if they were dying, and again and again The corpses that were left all over the place were repelled, and then came back again, again and again.

With Iser's first column fully engaged, the southern regiments, which were holding their positions, had to start projecting their forces to the front; a large number of reserves gathered to the front under Iser's artillery fire.

In the smoke of gunpowder and the choking smoke, both sides were sending more troops to the front line at any cost, pulling repeatedly in front of the chest-high trench.

Although these temporary trenches are very crude and can only be used as fortifications in small-scale battles, the protection of Eagle Point City is very limited, and there is nothing to regret if they are lost; but the southern legion on the forward position is still desperately defending, There was a 300% morale that they had never had.

The reason is also very simple, because there are really too many guard corps, and the southern corps really has no way to retreat; once the defense line connected by the trenches is broken too quickly, the defensive positions centered on Eagle Point City and various artillery bases will be destroyed. They were separated from each other, which directly affected whether they retreated to Eagle Point City or were surrounded by artillery forts.

Even for the sake of their own lives, they had to hold out until Ludwig ordered a retreat, or when the Guard Corps overwhelmed the entire line, and could not stop the whole army "calmly".

To the east of the front line, the two columns continued to advance unhurriedly towards the fortress of the defense line. The high morale and composure—more precisely, the number, put a lot of pressure on the southern army on the defense line.

At this moment, Eagle Point's fortress artillery opened fire again; this time the target was the centerline of the battlefield, the point of separation between the three columns.

Ludwig's purpose is very clear. He wants to interrupt the rhythm of Louis Bernard. With such a desperation of the Iser elf, it really makes the force of nearly 10,000 go hand in hand. will collapse.

The Iser elven line private soldiers who marched head-to-head watched in amazement at the sound of cannons from Eaglehorn City. Several black shadows cut through the sky and passed over their heads.

"boom--!!!!"

The shrapnel that exploded in the air spewed thousands of lead rounds, blasting around the unshielded Iser elves, covering them instantly; The flesh and blood burst into dark red blood-colored flowers in a scream.

And the artillery of the fortress seemed to never explode, pouring death flames on them, and the shrill screams could be heard clearly even in the explosion; Life has now become a part of the muddy minced flesh and blood everywhere, no longer separate from each other.

The Iser elves, who had nowhere to dodge, were still advancing at a constant speed, and even though they were suffering casualties every second, the fanatical elves were still ordering their soldiers to maintain their formation and attack the direction of Eaglehorn City.

Nonetheless, the offensive of the Janissaries was disrupted by the reckless shelling of Eagle Point, as the continuous shelling and casualties forced the officers to spend more time gathering the scattered troops and maintaining the shape.

But Ludwig's attention was no longer here.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and Ludwig, who was expressionless, took out his pocket watch and opened it with a bang. The transparent dial showed that it was 5:30.

The battle has been going on for nearly an hour, and Louis Bernard's force of nearly 10,000 has not been fully engaged in the battle - there will be at most an hour and a half before the sun will set.

He doesn't have much time left.

This sudden attack really caught him off guard. He never expected that he would launch the general attack in the evening, and it was considered to be the time for the southern army's rest and dinner... It was powerful, but it was not enough.

Far from enough!

It is wishful thinking to break down his own defenses in such a short time; but since Louis Bernard can be so careful, he cannot fail to understand this.

So his real purpose is not to defeat himself, but to take advantage of his lack of time to worry and go all out to defend most of his positions... open a gap in places that he can't take care of ~www.readwn.com~.

Um? !

With his pupils shrunk, Ludwig suddenly turned his gaze to the south.

Almost at the same time, an artillery position of the Imperial Guard Corps suddenly opened fire on the right-wing position at the southernmost tip of Eagle Point City.

"boom--!!!!"

Ferocious artillery fire poured down on the fortress of the right-wing position, and the smoke from the blast could be seen clearly by Ludwig at the top of the tower; but it was not the blasting spots that really caught his attention, but the sudden explosion from the tower. Gold-red gushing from the back of a hill to the right of the gun fort.

They are like daggers hidden in the shadows, stabbing out of the shadows when the enemy least expects them!

This is Louis Bernard's plan - he attracts his main force from the front with a huge momentum, and is to try his best to open a gap in the defense line, and at the same time to sandwich Eagle Point City from the southeast.

"Sure enough, as he guessed..."

Ludwig murmured in a low voice.