At this time, Europe.
On the European battlefield, the Holy Crusaders led by Douglas were temporarily defeated.
Although Douglas died, this did not mean that the Holy Crusaders completely lost their ability to resist.
Although the Holy Crusaders experienced a disastrous defeat, their spirit was not broken.
To them, the Longyan Army, which had lost its weapons, equipment and backup, was just a tiger without teeth, and was not scary at all.
But soon something happened that shocked them.
The now impoverished Long Yan Army actually launched an attack with infantry.
As a result, the most powerful French cavalry of their Holy Crusaders were defeated by the Dragon Flame Army during the pursuit of these Dragon Flame Army, and only a small part of them even escaped.
The current leader of the Holy Crusaders is also French and is Douglas's lieutenant.
Among these Holy Crusaders, the French troops were the largest, and the number of other troops was too small.
Although their fight had a certain impact on the Holy Crusaders, the Longyan Army quickly advanced.
But in the end it was the French general who stabilized the situation and prevented the Holy Crusaders from causing chaos.
Of course, the reason why he was able to do this was because the Catholic Pope issued an order at a critical moment.
For the Pope, the battle against Prussia was of great importance.
This determined their struggle for Roman orthodoxy between Catholicism and Protestantism.
Thomas, the new general of the Holy Crusaders, fell into deep melancholy. He felt a deep sense of powerlessness when facing the Longyan Army.
Logically speaking, this Longyan Army should no longer have such fighting ability.
In Thomas's understanding, an army can fight because they have enough supplies to support them in continuing to fight.
But now, the Long Yan Army does not have any supplies in Hanover.
It is still winter, let alone the replenishment of weapons and ammunition, even the most basic food cannot be guaranteed.
The soldiers of the Longyan Army still maintain very strong combat capabilities.
This can be seen from this attack.
But this is not what makes Thomas the most powerless. The Long Yan Army led by Ling Chen does not have a cavalry team.
The previous confrontations were with the Prussian cavalry. Fight against them.
But in this attack, the Longyan Army killed all their cavalry without any help from the cavalry. Even the horses were killed a lot by the Longyan Army.
If this continues, the troop advantage they originally had will be leveled by Long Yan's army bit by bit.
But Thomas couldn't think of any good way.
He summoned the generals of his various troops to discuss countermeasures.
"This is the situation. The specific situation depends on the situation. You can discuss it." Thomas took a puff of cigarette and sighed.
Everyone fell silent when they saw the report of the Longyan Army's attack.
In this small attack, they lost more than thirty horses and even more weapons.
You must know that there are countless resources that need to be invested in cultivating a cavalry.
But now, a team of forty cavalrymen lost more than thirty people at once.
Although this kind of loss is not much in terms of the total number of troops, it is still a very small attack.
Moreover, the Longyan Army still uses foot combat and cavalry tactics.
This is almost impossible to succeed, but now it seems that Long Yanjun has done it for once.
A general from ancient Rome said: "Judging from the battle traces at the scene, these Dragon Flame Army had already set up an ambush. They took advantage of the temperature difference between day and night to build these earthen walls in one night."
"They used these earthen walls as cover to hinder our cavalry's attack and weaken their mobility. Only then could these Longyan troops take advantage."
"And our cavalry obviously underestimated the strength of these earth walls. They probably thought they could break down these earth walls, but they didn't expect that these earth walls fell down and knocked them away."
"As expected of the Longyan people, this is exactly the same as the tactics recorded in their ancient books."
The ancient Roman general sighed.
Thomas raised his eyebrows after hearing this. He looked at the ancient Roman general: "You mean, you have seen such a combat method from Long Yan's ancient book?"
The ancient Roman general nodded: "Yes, that's right. I once went to Longyan to be polite and found this ancient book of Longyan, so I brought him back."
"The combat method used by Long Yan's army comes from Long Yan's ancient book."
"The book records at that time that a prime minister named Cao from Long Yan crossed the Weishui River to fight against a man named Ma Chao. Their cavalry was very powerful."
"Prime Minister Cao had no way to set up camp. The weather was so cold at that time that hot water would freeze into ice within a short time."
"Without a walled city, soldiers would have no way to survive in the wild."
"But fortunately, Prime Minister Cao came up with a way to build a city with sand and soil. It only takes one night to build an extremely strong city."
"A city can be built from frozen soil overnight, which allowed Prime Minister Cao to defeat Ma Chao's cavalry."
After listening to this story, everyone suddenly realized.
No wonder the Longyan people are so powerful in marching and fighting. It turns out that they have such a divine book to help them.
Thomas hurriedly asked: "Where is the book you mentioned? It is now our top military secret. Get it quickly, and the generals will study the combat methods in it together!"
The ancient Roman general nodded and immediately went back to get the ancient book he had found in Longyan.
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And on the other hand.
Ling Chen, who was victorious in the attack, did not have time to celebrate his victory.
He followed Mao Chang and Diana in the command room to formulate attack strategies.
This is just part of his plan.
According to current observations on the battlefield, the Holy Crusaders' operations are all based on their own supply lines.
Both their tactics and combat methods are too single and one-sided.
Nowadays, the Holy Crusaders still use a very primitive linear attack in their charges or attacks. This kind of attack method can be said to be a pure comparison of the combat effectiveness of the cavalry and the number of remaining troops.
And there is no successor.
If a wave of attacks does not overwhelm the enemy, they will fall into a very passive situation.
This method of fighting is very costly and consumes huge amounts of materials.
Moreover, these combat plans are only suitable for small legion battles.
It is simply not suitable for large-scale legion operations now.
Especially when a battle breaks out with more than 10,000 troops, this method of combat has little effect.
Therefore, based on these shortcomings of the Holy Crusaders' operations, Ling Chen developed new combat methods.
And these Holy Crusaders' horses are an important step in his implementation of the latest combat plan.
