Three months passed in the blink of an eye.
The attacks and defenses surrounding the town of Hircine suffered casualties on both sides.
In Anne's diary, it's Nasty May, Annoying June, and Mud July.
However, the dog-like appearance of the battle really makes people want to curse! Except for Annie who occasionally wonders whether she has suddenly become a "tactical master" like Yang Wen-li, Mu Xing and Nan Lixiang don't want to talk to anyone because talking too much will doubt their own IQ.
The excitement at the beginning was gone.
Who would have thought? This continent that claims to have a history of millions of years, this war-torn place that is said to have "wars every year, especially this year", has such a shockingly low level of war quality? Not to mention compared with ancient China, I'm afraid it can even compete with the village-level wars of the Fuso Warring States Period.
According to Lu Yuan, "This is a stupidity competition between pigs and pigs. It's really embarrassing for us to get involved in the middle." Of course, this was only an afterthought. He had never thought of it before...
On the first day, a large-scale attack and defense began. The imperial army arrived at the city "as promised" holding spears like a forest... Then General Tullius was shocked to find that the main city wall facing the east of Helgen Town plus the wooden skirt wall was four meters long. high! And the standard spear they brought was only two and a half meters long... This was embarrassing.
Your city walls don’t comply with imperial regulations? ! The past tactics of standing at the base of the city and stabbing people were no longer useful, so the Imperial Army had no choice but to retreat.
However, Helgen Town is not a "wonderful plan". It deliberately built the city wall in such a way to restrain the Empire's assassination tactics. The height of Helgen Town's city wall is exactly the same as the Empire's standard. The only difference is that Helgen Town's city wall used to be built against a stream. , and later the stream changed its course...
But even so, the soldiers in Helgen Town still suffered more than a hundred casualties in the bow and arrow shooting! If Lu Yuan's batch of armors hadn't arrived at the right time, I'm afraid there would have been a large-scale attrition this time!
Why were the casualties so heavy? Nan Lixiang went up to the city wall to check it out, and almost made her nose twist in anger - this wall actually had no crenellations! The main body of the city wall is made of stone and is very strong. But the place where the person was standing, apart from a wall edge less than thirty centimeters, had only a skirt wall nailed with thin wooden boards... This thing can be used as a magic horse in a bow and arrow shootout! Moreover, the second bad habit of the Nords is that they like to use suspension bridges to connect various city walls. It seems to be convenient for support, but in fact, the exposed suspension bridge becomes the hardest hit area for soldiers to be killed.
Yes, if you find a problem, just change it! Changed overnight! Building crenelations - Helgen Town was busy all night long, and the Empire was also busy all night... In the dark night, both sides did not bother to investigate the other side.
The next day, there was a row of crenellations on the side of Helgen Town, while on the other side of the Empire, two behemoth-like siege towers were rolled out like "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" This time, the urban management team of Rift Valley City was happy to hide behind the crenellations and shoot their crossbows. But the empire is embarrassed again... Didn't your city wall have crenelations yesterday?
Yesterday General Tullius saw that it was useless to assassinate the city, but the effect of shooting the city was still good. After returning home, he gritted his teeth and simply attacked the tower. Using bows and arrows, he would be able to take down the Helgen Fortress in one fell swoop!
Ordnance such as siege towers is a major military weapon in this era, and the blueprints are never leaked to outsiders! Specifically, it was a wooden frame with wheels, covered with cowhide on the outside to protect against bows and arrows, and with soldiers hidden inside. When the building cart is pushed to the edge of the city and the suspension bridge is lowered, the soldiers in the building can attack directly onto the city wall along the suspension bridge! Siege towers generally have nothing to fear except catapults and fire attacks. In the era of cold weapons, they were considered one of the ultimate siege methods. The only requirement is that the lowered suspension bridge must be able to be built directly on the city wall.
Yesterday, the magician calculated the height of the city wall, and stayed up all night to revise the drawings and create such a high siege truck - but in the blink of an eye, there were more crenels one and a half meters high on the city wall, with only less than half a meter in the middle. The gap - the commander of Helgen Town is cunning, so cunning!
General Tullius sighed over there, but he didn't know that Anne and the others were also in a state of collapse... Even if they couldn't rely on the water, what about the promised two-sided siege? What about a sneak attack through water? What about wave attacks, wheel battles, rockets, and mounds of earth? ! We have prepared so many countermeasures to prevent you. Everyone has been busy all night, so you can just choose two!
Tullius, as a senior general, why are you always fighting against the East City Wall? Are you not good at it?
I can't stop complaining...
Over there, Tullius's IQ was overdue, and over here, Hadawa actually thought a few women were messing around. I have never seen what you are talking about after joining the army for more than ten years! We just let the officials roar and all move forward. After the cavalry has finished charging, the infantry will rush, and after the infantry has finished rushing, the cavalry will rush...
What Anne and the others didn't expect was that Skyrim's tactics were not the weirdest, but even weirder. On the third day, Ulfric Stormcloak, who wanted to show off his face, actually mingled with the big soldiers and secretly came to Helgen Town. In front of the city gate, he wanted to roar open the city gate with the roar of the Nords... He used this method to capture Markarth City in the first place, and wanted to replicate his success.
But that city gate has long been piled with stones!
Besides, you have a great country... No, the only two big bosses in the province, instead of sitting in the rear, actually went to the front line to show off their shame. It's almost embarrassing for yourself if you don't make people laugh! Ulfric's voice was hoarse from the roar, but the city gate didn't move at all. Nan Lixiang on the city wall seized the opportunity and shot Ulfric with an arrow, so much that his right chest penetrated his left lung!
Then Anne led the vigilance knights to attack from the pontoon (because it was adjacent to the water and there were many ships, a pontoon bridge could be built around Helgen at any time, thus blocking the city gate). The Stormcloaks here are desperately trying to protect the severely injured Laowu from escaping, while half a hundred heavy cavalry are chasing him over there! Killing at the foot of the Throat of the World in one breath, the Stormcloaks lost more than 800 people in the battle, more people died than the Helgen City Guards combined!
Later, when Mu Xing found out, he kept regretting, "If I had seized the opportunity this time, I would have won directly"! Yes, if the whole army could come out when Lao Wu fled, then even a few thousand versus 20,000 would have won now. But it's a pity that who could have thought in advance that Lao Wu was so stupid?
(Actually, Ulfric has a criminal record. He assassinated the King of Skyrim when he was meeting with him - on an important diplomatic occasion, if the leader of one party assassinates the other party, who will talk to you in the future?)
In short, the fighting continued like a muddy melee, and it passed intermittently for three months.
The various situations that occur in the process often leave several women who claim to be "I have seen all aliens" dumbfounded. Have you ever seen someone jump off a city wall more than four meters high after being scolded so hard that he was so confused? Someone fell to death without cutting him; there were also people who suddenly met acquaintances on the city and below, and after shouting a few words, they actually said they would switch sides... This kind of thing didn't happen once or twice.
To put it bluntly, the Nords have no collective concept. Not only do they not have a country in their minds, they don't even have a collective concept of the army. General Tullius's face is not as important as my bragging friend. Falkreath is a little better in this regard. At least everyone has a much stronger sense of belonging here than in the Empire.
There are more messy things on the coalition side. The ones from the Empire and the Stormcloaks, the officers and the nobles, the Skyrim and the Empire...it seemed like everyone was competing to see who was better.
It was not until August that the war finally returned to normal.
"Rapid fire! Shoot all your crossbow arrows!"
Following Nan Lixiang's order, countless people lifted off the weeds on their bodies, squatted and pulled the trigger towards the coalition camp. I have been lurking from midnight until now, just for this moment! Hundreds of crossbow arrows flew up from the south hillside like a rainstorm, densely attacking the Stormcloak military camp! Crouching on the hillside, you can't see the steel crossbow arrows shooting into the flesh and the blood spraying out. But we could see soldiers gathering together for breakfast, being shot down one after another like grass.
Arrows shot through the weapon racks, through the tents where the soldiers lived, and through the leaning battle flags. It wasn't until the arrow rain covered this camp that it then extended to both wings.
The fifth round, the tenth round... The soldier's arm that rocked the wheel was numb. He just mechanically cocked the crossbow and shot the arrow.
"Stop!" As most of the people finished shooting a box of twelve arrows, Nan Lixiang reached out and drew a circle in the sky, "Let's go! Gather at the West City Gate!"
Hundreds of people put their crossbows on their backs without saying a word, then dispersed into several waves like rabbits, fled into the forest, and disappeared in the blink of an eye! When the coalition troops rushed up the hillside, they found nothing except large tracts of discarded weeds...
Yes, a few months later, Anne and others finally found the key to victory for the Nords, which was the mountain regiment!
Although people like the Nords look like natural heavy infantry at first glance, they are actually a Tang Dynasty away from heavy infantry. The most important thing for heavy infantry is discipline. Only with discipline can hundreds of people act as one, advancing and retreating like the Great Steel Wall! But the most lacking quality in Nordic nature is discipline...
When five Nords face a pack of wolves, they can form an epic teamwork; when thirty Nords gather together, they can only become a band of thieves; and when hundreds of Nords are placed in a barracks, they can only become a group of thieves. A group of stragglers. My Great China walking queue training is not useful at all - the Nords know the right and left, but they just don't follow your orders! If you want to teach him a lesson, he will challenge you in a duel. He would rather die in the duel... and then there are a group of people around who think he died as a man!
I admired him so much that I wished I could die like that person! Anyway, letting them stand in line would be worse than death.
There was nothing we could do... In the end, Nan Lixiang broke the pot and just formed a mountain group.
Divided into teams, each team has five people, every five teams has a group, and every five groups has a mountain group. Get together to carry out a sneak attack, and when the coalition forces arrive, they will retreat in small groups. Whoever is blocked will be unlucky, and the rest of the time will be free to move around... I didn't expect that it would be very effective.
As a small team of five people, they are willing to do anything - crawling into ditches, diving, lying on hillsides, stealing supplies, and even pretending to be women to sneak into the coalition camp. They have done it all! This horse riding team is a mountain regiment, and this is a special force. One day you play the Empire and fight for the Stormcloaks, the next you become a Talos believer and attack the Empire, the day after tomorrow you sneak into the military camp and pull out more than 20 fellow soldiers... They are not on the frontal battlefield, but they are not lethal to the Empire at all. Low.
"How's it going today?"
When Nan Lixiang took half of the mountain regiment (the rest was missing) back to Falkreath in a circle, she happened to meet Anne and the Vigilance Knights who came to pick them up.
"It's okay, most of them are back... The Stormcloaks may have killed about two hundred people. I don't think they can eat breakfast today. Haha~" Nan Lixiang said with a smile.
They were fighting with bad intentions - the Mountain Regiment spared the Imperial Army every time they attacked, specifically targeting the Stormcloaks. The Stormcloaks had now suffered nearly fifteen hundred casualties, while the Imperial casualties were less than five hundred. The balance of forces between the two sides began to become unbalanced, and it was hard to believe that these two Yuhi enemies could really be close and never fall out.
Even if the female High King has no ambitions, Ulfric is just a low-quality Cao Cao with an intelligence of 50. He will never trust anyone.
"Let's go then, that guy... is going to start broadcasting again today." Annie said helplessly. Nan Lixiang immediately became embarrassed and excited. The Nords in the Mountain Group high-fived each other in eager anticipation, while the people in the Vigilance Knights were confused - they were all followers of Standal and could not hear Hircine's broadcast.
"What is he going to say today?"
Hearing Nan Lixiang ask this, Annie's expression was a little strange, "He said...the last words of the war dead?"
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ps: I have no face to see Jiangdong’s elders.
